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carried to different places, and impregnated by 

 milt, as we know has been done by Shaw and 

 others, as the female does not deposit all her spawn 

 on one redd ; and, at the same time, I have little 

 doubt, that intercourse with the male takes place 

 between the intervals of spawning. On this much 

 debated question, I must note what Mr Younger 

 says, 'If we have no proper idea of the purpose of 

 the large kip or pike, like a finger, growing in pro- 

 jection from the under snout of the male salmon, 

 just previous to the spawning time or season, 

 and fitting into a hole of proper dimensions on 

 the upper chap of the snout, and this pike falling 

 off so suddenly and entirely, and its case also filling 

 up immediately after spawning, need we wonder 

 that the still more complex construction of the 

 organs of generation and of the manner of their 

 use, should, to this day, be unascertained.' This 

 was written some twenty years ago, I think. I 

 must mention that the Tweed is more and more 

 frequented by the bull-trout, which, to all appear- 

 ance, is a salmon, but of a coarser spotted kind 

 of fish. The smolts of this fish have grey 

 fins, the sea-trout, orange, the salmon, black 

 fins ; but, in the present Act, there is no men- 

 tion of the smolt, therefore, young fishers may 



