London to John O 1 Groat's. 367. 



The manager told me that they generally reckoned 

 upon a thousand eggs to a pound of the salmon caught. 

 Thus fourteen good-sized fish would stock the twenty- 

 five troughs. When hatched, the little things run 

 down into the race-way which carries them into the 

 feeding pond. Here they are fed twice daily, with five 

 pounds of beef's liver pulverised. They remain in this 

 water-yard from April to autumn, when the gate is 

 raised and they are let out into the river. And it is a 

 very singular and interesting fact that those only go 

 which have got their sea-coats on them, or have reached 

 the " smolt " character. The smaller fry remain in 

 the pond until, as it has been said in higher circles of 

 society, their beards are grown, or, in their case, until 

 their scales are grown, to fit them for the rough and 

 tumble of salt-water life. 



The growth of the little bull-headed mites after 

 being turned into the river-pasture is wonderful more 

 rapid than that of lambs of the Southdown breed. The 

 keeper had marked some of them, on letting them out, 

 by clipping the dorsal fin. On being caught six or eight 

 months afterward, they weighed from five to seven pounds 

 against half a pound each when sent forth to take care 

 of themselves. The proprietors of the fisheries defray 

 the expense of this breeding establishment, being taxed 

 only two-pence in the pound of their rental. This, of 



