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better warranted, that he breeds in the clear, 

 sandy, parts of rivers, not far from the mouths 

 thereof. It is entirely a northern fish, being 

 found both at Greendtand and Kamchatka, be- 

 ing never so far south as the Mediterranean. 



The Salmon-trout migrates like the salmon up 

 several of our rivers, spawns and returns to the 

 sea. The flesh, when boiled is red, and tastes 

 like the salmon. 



The White-trout, appears much of the same 

 nature, migrates out of the sea into the river 

 Esk in Cumberland, from July to September. 



The Samlet is considered by Mr. Pennant, as 

 a distinct species, and not as the fry of the sal- 

 mon, as some have supposed : it seldom exceeds 

 six or seven inches in length. 



They commonly spawn [in October, and the 

 young become samlets the following year, and 

 in a few months a large salmon. The milter 

 and spawner having performed their office, be- 

 take themselves to the sea, and we are told that 

 when they have been obstructed in their passage, 

 they have grown so impatient, that clapping 

 their tails to their mouths, with a sudden spring, 

 they have leaped clear over weirs and other ob- 

 stacles that stood in their way ; and some by 

 leaping short, have by that means been taken.* 

 If they happen to meet with such impediments 

 that they cannot get to sea, they become sick, 

 lean, and pine away, and die in two years. The 

 principal occasion of their dying is this; the 

 salmon being a fish by nature tender, and very 

 chill, cannot in the winter season endure the 



* Salmon will sometimes ascend up a river four or five hun- 

 dred miles, only to cast their spawn, and secure it in banks 

 of sand till the young be hatched and exuded, and then re- 

 turn to the sea again. 



RAY, 



