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times, after a great flood, furnish a good day's sport ; 

 and, if the net fishers could be set aside, several days* 

 sport. I have known two salmon, one above 201bs., 

 taken there in a day ; and I have taken myself fine 

 sea trout, or sewens, which, in an autumnal flood in 

 Wales, are found in most of the streams near the sea. 



POIET. I have heard a Northumberland man 

 boast of the rivers of that county, as affording good 

 salmon fishing. 



HAL. I have no doubt that salmon are sometimes 

 caught in the Tyne, the Coquet, and the Till ; but, in 

 the present state of these rivers, this is a rare 

 occurrence. I was once, for a week, on a good run 

 of the North Tyne ; I fished sometimes, but I never 

 saw a salmon rise ; and the only place in this river, 

 where, from my own knowledge, I can assert salmon 

 have been caught with the artificial fly, was at 

 Mounsey, very high up the river. There, in 1820, 

 two grilses were caught, in the end of August. I 

 have recorded this as a sort of historical occurrence ; 

 and I dare say most of the counties of England, in 

 which there are salmon rivers, would, upon a minute 

 inquiry, furnish such instances, if they contained salmon 

 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. 



