SALMON. 



CHAPTER VII. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE SALMON; WITH DIRECTIONS 

 HOW TO FISH FOR HIM. 



PlSC. The Salmon is accounted the king of fresh-water 

 fish ; and is ever bred in rivers relating to the sea, yet so 

 high or far from it, as admits of no tincture of salt or 

 brackishness. He is said to breed or cast his spawn, in 

 most rivers, in the month of August: 1 some say, that then 

 they dig a hole or grave in a safe place in the gravel, and 

 there place their eggs or spawn, after the mclter has done 



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