SALMON FISHERY. 



and female, meet in rivulets in great numbers; 

 and fuch as are ready for fpawning, pitch upon a 

 place, where there is large gravel, and where the 

 water has a quick current. 



As a fmgle drop of fperma contains vafl num- 

 bers of animalcula, fufficient to animate hundreds 

 of eggs, and as the water is loaded at this time 

 with the fperma, it is no wonder that almofl every 

 egg becomes a fifh. 



Every egg or fpawn, in the female, comes to its 

 perfection and ripenefs at the fame time and day, 

 but it is not fo with the fperma of the male; for the 

 fperma, or white roe, lies like a folid fubflance, 

 divided into two parts, in its body, clofe to the 

 back, and grows gradually fluid, and diffolves it- 

 felf into a creamy liquid, beginning at the lowelt 

 part, and difcharges about the fixth part of each 

 divifion every day, fo that within eight days all 

 the fperma becomes liquid, and runs off. 



1 2. To breed young falmon, according to this 

 invention, you muft have fome of them taken out 

 of the rivulet in November, when they gather to- 

 gether to fpawn ; as in fome rivulets their fpawn 

 becomes later ripe, you may, in the latter end of 

 the month, let part of the water drain off, by 

 {lemming the water above, that you may take as 

 many out as you want ; if, after gently ftroking 

 their bellies with the fingers, fome fpawn or fperma 

 goes off, it is a fign that both are ripe, and thofe 

 muft be put into a large pail or tub for ufe. 



13. Then 



