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forty or fifty have thus been hunted in a day. 

 The plan is, after the fish is struck, to turn the 

 horse to the shore. The Ocean, its Wonders. 



Sir Walter Scott mentions similar sport on the 

 Solway Firth. The rapidity of the salmon's 

 motion is such, that this fish has been known 

 to travel at the rate of sixteen miles an hour. 



Wonders in Herefordshire. Salmon are here 

 in season all the year, and are found in the 

 river Wye. Bone Well, near Richard's Castle, 

 is always full of bones of little fishes, of which it 

 can never be emptied, but that they return again. 

 Anglorum Speculum, p. 377. 



The salmon were so plentiful in the Severn 

 river, that they have been sold for two-pence 

 halfpenny per pound, but now they fetch two 

 shillings, and three and six-pence : they leave 

 their salt water haunts, and are earlier in the 

 Severn, than any other English river. In January, 

 1833, a very fine fish, nearly a yard in length, 

 was discovered near the shore, close to where the 

 warm water enters the river from the city engine, 

 at the bottom of Newport-street ; it was speared 

 and brought into the city, the captor refused a 

 sovereign for it. 



Dr. Hastings Nat. Hist, of Worcestershire. 



