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salmon rivers, would, upon a minute inquiry, 

 furnish such instances, if they contained sal- 

 mon fishers. Yorkshire, Devonshire, and 

 Cornwall, with the sea on both sides, ought 

 to furnish a greater number. 



PHYS. Give us some little account of the 

 Scotch and Irish rivers. 



HAL. I fear I shall tire you by attempting 

 any details on this subject, for they are so 

 many, that I ought to take a map in my hands; 

 but I will say a few words on those in which 

 I have had good sport. First, the Tweed: 

 of this, as you will understand from what I 

 mentioned before, I fear I must now say 

 "fuit" Yet still, for spring salmon fishing, 

 it must be a good river. The last great sport 

 I had in that river was in 1817, in the be- 

 ginning of April. I caught, in two or three 

 hours, at Merton, four or five large salmon, 

 and as many in the evening at Kelso and 

 one of them weighed 25 Ibs. But this kind 

 of fishing cannot be compared to the summer 

 fishing : the fish play with much less energy, 

 and in general are in bad season ; and the fly 

 used for fishing is almost like a bird four or 



