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1864, what seemed to be the natural fauces terra, from Ross The Solway. 

 Head Lighthouse, in Kirkcudbright Bay, to Great Bees 

 Head, but the other, Mr. Eden, somehow or other carried 

 his point. The limits as now existing are simply absurd. 



Messrs. Walpole and Young recommend the old line (in 

 the Act of 1804) from Skinberness to Carsethorn on the 

 western boundary of the Firth, but they add an eastern 

 boundary, and do away with the two-mile limit along the 

 coast. As the fixing of the limits of estuaries, however, 

 had only reference to the illegality of fixed nets, it is 

 difficult to see what purpose is served by the fixing of the 

 limits of the Solway west of the east boundary, at any rate, 

 seeing that the nets there cannot be touched. 



We cannot do better than quote from the Solway report, 

 the summary of the recommendations of the Commis- 

 sioners with regard to the most important points : 



I. "The Acts relating to the Solway, i.e., the Solway 

 Act, 44 Geo. III., c. 45, and the Annan Act, 4 Viet, c. 18, 

 should be repealed. 



II. " The limits of the Solway for salmon fishery purposes 

 should include all that arm of the sea which is situated 

 between Scotland and England, and which lies east of a 

 line drawn from the large house at Carsethorn in Arbigland, 

 in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, to the hotel at Skinber- 

 ness, in the parish of Abbey Holme in the county of 

 Cumberland, and west of a line drawn from the west bank 

 of the water of Sark at Sark foot in the county of Dumfries, 

 to Burgh Head in the county of Cumberland. Within the 

 aforesaid limits the Solway Firth should include the sea 

 and the rivers so far as the tide flows and ebbs. 



III. "Outside these limits : 



(a.) All the rivers which are entirely Scotch should be 

 placed under the Scotch laws. 



