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in the second series of Mr. Jesse's interesting 

 "Gleanings," of which, compared with the "har- 

 vesting" of some others, it may "be said that "the 

 gleanings of the grapes of Ephraim are better than 

 the vintage of Abiezer." It is there stated, page 305, 

 that " the ovarium of a salmon will produce 

 20,000,000 ova." This requires correction, by cutting 

 off the three last ciphers, and making the number 

 20,000 instead of 20,000,000. Twenty millions of the 

 ova of a salmon ready to spawn would weigh about 

 four hundred pounds. The number of ova in salmon 

 is, according to the size of the fish, from fifteen to 

 twenty-five thousand. 



In the annexed engraving, an angler is repre- 

 sented evidently from Cockney shire, as may be 

 suspected from his neck bare, a la Byron, white 

 drills and pumps, and his basket slung over the 

 wrong shoulder making, with a gudgeon-rod, his 

 first essay in fly-fishing, bending forward in elegant 

 attitude, as if he were angling in the Lea, and a 

 lady on the opposite side admiring him. The scene 

 is in Wales, and the spot where he has thrown hia 

 fly seems a likely one for both salmon and trout, 

 and worthy of being fished by a greater proficient. 



THE GREY. 



The Salmo Eriox, or Grey, which enters some of 

 the rivers in the north of Scotland, about August, 

 is little known in the rivers south of the "Forth, 



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