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interest to a scene at once so curious and un- 

 common ; the chase was continued up the river 

 until distance hid both the salmon and their pur- 

 suers from the ken of the spectators. 



Liverpool Advertiser, June, 1833. 



The very marvellous event related by Bourne 

 and others concerning Mr. Anderson, an alder- 

 man of Newcastle, dropping his ring by accident, 

 over the Tyne bridge, as he was fingering it, is 

 supposed to have happened about the year 1559. 

 The part of the story which some have ventured 

 to doubt of, is, that the identical ring was brought 

 back again, after some time, in a fish bought in 

 Newcastle market by a servant of the above mer- 

 chant, and most unexpectedly restored to its 

 owner. The ring is at present, 1783, in the 

 possession of Mr. Edward Anderson, a relative, 

 who permitted a drawing to be taken of it. On 

 the inside of the ring is the picture of a salmon, 

 in commemoration of this event. Vox Piscis, or 

 the Book of Fish, 1627, mentions this ring in 

 page 13. Brand's Newcastle, vol. i. p. 47. 



The principal fish taken in the river Wye are 

 the salmon, which are in perfection between the 

 months of December and August; and of so much 

 consequence was the abundance of this fish, that 

 in the indentures of apprenticeship in the town of 

 Hereford, it was stipulated that the apprentices 



