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Salmon fishery on the Tweed. 



small village in the territory of Baden, having 

 in the intermediate time proceeded at least five 

 hundred miles, reckoning all the curvatures and 

 sinuosities of the river. When the salmon wants 

 repose it usually seeks a large stone, against 

 which it rests its tail; and if followed by any 

 noise in its progress , assumes that posture till 

 the danger seems to be past. 



At the spawning time these fish become lean 

 and emaciated, but on their return to the sea 

 they acquire their proper bulk in a very little 

 while; having been known to be considerably 

 more than double their weight in about six weeks. 

 They have been taken in England of the weight 

 of seventy-four pounds, and in Sweden of eighty, 

 and Denis says that he saw salmon six feet long 

 in Louisiana. Their food consists of the smaller 

 fish, insects, and worms; for all these are 

 used with success, as baits, by the angler for 

 salmon. 



The following particulars relative to the salmon 

 fishery on the river Tweed, are extracted trom 

 Mr. Pennant : 



" The capture in the Tweed, about the month 

 of July is prodigious; in a good fishery often a 

 boat load and sometimes near two are taken in a 

 tide ; some few years ago there were above seven 

 hundred fish taken at one haul, but from fifty to 

 a hundred is very frequent. 



" The season for fishing in the Tweed begins 

 November the thirtieth ,- but the fishermen work 



