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quently seen to throw themselves up cataracts 

 and precipices from ten to fifteen feet high ; 

 making at times several essays before they can 

 gain their point, and when they have so done, 

 it is often to their own destruction, by leaping 

 into baskets and nets placed on purpose to 

 catch them. 



There is a remarkable cataract in the river 

 Gaerey, in the pass of Gillicrankey, in Athol, 

 Perthshire, and one much of the same kind 

 on the river-Tumble, within five miles of the 

 former : there is another at Old Aberdeen in 

 Scotland, and another at Keith, near Blair- 

 Drummond, where such quantities of Salmon 

 have been caught that they constitute the 

 chief traffic of the place. I have heard of a 

 cataract on the river Tivy, in Pembrokeshire, 

 so high, that people stand wondering at the 

 strength and sleight used by the fish to get out 

 of the sea into the river. On the river Wear 

 near Durham is another, but not so high as 

 any of the former. When their passage to 

 the sea is intercepted by weirs, or any other 



