OF 



SALMON, 



OTHER FISH OF THE SAME CLASS. 



Salmon pafs from the Sea into the Rivers. 



.LAYING afide fyftems, and adhering to fads, 

 it is clearly afcertained, that falmon come into the 

 rivers to fpawn. If any of them are found without 

 eggs or milt, the reafon of it is, that they have 

 been taken a long time before fpawning, or a long 

 time after ; at which time they were recovered 

 from the ficknefs, that they are fubjeft to in the 

 fpawning feafon. 



When long, thin, and poor falmon are found 

 in rivers, we are not to believe, that they become 

 fo on account of the frefh water's being hurtful to 

 them, as fome think ; but that is owing to their 

 having but juft got over the ficknefs caufed by 

 fpawning. When they recover from that fick- 

 nefs, 



