AND FISHING 



The growth of this fish (says Buffori) is so 

 extraordinary, that a young salmon caught at 

 Warrington, weighing seven pounds on the 7th 

 of February, was marked on the back fin, and 

 retaken the year following, when it weighed 

 seventeen pounds and a half. 



Salmon s Eggs growing in a Dunghill. 

 A few years ago, my informant says that he, 

 with two more, caught two salmon in rather a 

 poaching way; one of the fish weighed six 

 pounds, which they gave to their assistant; the 

 other was a very large fish of about twenty 

 pounds weight, both apparently in high and sea- 

 sonable condition. He and his companion kept 

 the large fish, and divided it; the head part 

 happened to fall to his share; the fish was a 

 female, and had a great quantity of pea, but they 

 were not in a very forward state, being about the 

 size of swan shot. The next day his wife boiled 

 part of this fish for their dinner, but it was not 

 eatable ; it looked like glue ; the appearance 

 was enough to turn a man's stomach; and it 

 was, of course, thrown away. He was then con- 

 vinced that the fish was out of season ; this was 

 in the month of September ; and he immediately 

 buried what remained, the fish and the pea, in 

 his dunghill. About two months afterwards, he 

 sold the heap of dung to a person of the town, 



