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canvas swelling to a light breeze, and making 

 three miles an hour. 



SALMON. 



The salmon is a fish too well known to need 

 any particular description. It abounds in 

 European waters, and, common as it still is in 

 England, was formerly so plentiful that in some 

 parts of the country apprentices and servants 

 stipulated with their masters that they were 

 not to eat salmon more than twice or thrice a 

 week. Want of proper preservation of the fish 

 has led to a diminution in its numbers ; but it 

 is hoped that, by the more stringent regulations 

 now enforced, it may again become as plentiful 

 as ever. 



During the summer the salmon usually in- 

 habits the sea ; in the course of the autumn it 

 quits the salt water, and journeys up the rivers 

 to deposit spawn. During the winter it remains 

 in the fresh water, returning to the sea in the 

 beginning of the spring. They are usually 

 observed to remain in the brackish water at 

 the mouths of rivers, previously to leaving and 

 re-entering the sea; this, it is thought, is 

 probably for the purpose of accustoming them- 

 selves to the change. The young salmon 

 remain in the rivers until they attain about a 

 foot in length, when they descend to the seas. 



The principal salmon fisheries of Great Britain 

 are at the mouths of the large rivers ; among 

 them the Tay, the Tweed, and the Severn, are 

 the most important. 



