drat), or an anonymous cheat in green, purple, scarlet, 

 and gold, for the purpose of swallowing it, should it 

 prove to his taste. The digestive power of the salmon 

 is known to be great, and the process of digestion 

 rapid, and if their food consisted only of flies and 

 insects when in fresh water, as most assuredly it 

 does not there would "be nothing wonderful in the 

 stomach always "being empty when caught in rivers. 

 As the stomach of the salmon, as in man, probably 

 retains its power for some time after the animal is 

 deprived of life, the question as to the fish not feeding 

 when in fresh water cannot be decided by examin- 

 ing the stomach three or four hours after death, 

 when it is possible that the contents may in that 

 time have been digested. On a dozen different rivers 

 in England, Ireland, and Scotland, let the stomachs 

 of fifty salmon, at each place, during the season, be 

 examined immediately after the fish is landed, and 

 we think it probable that food of some kind worms, 

 fish, or insects will be found. It was at one period 

 asserted and believed, that nothing, except mere 

 fluid, was ever to be found in the stomach of a 

 salmon, either during his abode in salt water or in 

 fresh, till it was discovered that in salmon taken at 

 the mouths of rivers the stomach was frequently 

 full of sand eels. 



The annexed Plate of Angling Apparatus contains 

 representations of 1, 2. Plummets for sounding the 

 depth of the water; the first with a ring at the top, 

 and a piece of cork at the bottom to stick the point 



