NATURALIZATION OF FISH. 207 



Cottus Quadricornus Whiting 



Mullet Mackerel 



f Plaice Herring 



Flounder -f Pollack 



White Whale Prawns 



Cod Shrimps 



Basse Crabbs 



Loaches f Oysters 



f Smelt f Muscles, 

 f Atherine 

 Dr. M'CullocTis Journal of Science, vol. xix. 



Fish Preservers The far-famed Fish-pond of 

 Logan. This pond is unlike anything I ever met 

 with ; it was formed in 1800, at an expense of 

 several hundred pounds, and has furnished a whole- 

 sale article of food, fatter than can be found in 

 the open ocean. The pond, according to Mr. 

 Matheson, is thirty feet deep, and one hundred 

 and sixty in circumference. There is at the top 

 a wall of solid masonry, several feet high, encir- 

 cling the rock on every side ; it communicates 

 with the tide with one of those fissures so com- 

 mon on bold and precipitous shores. It is the 

 property of Colonel M* Dowal, of Logan. Attached 

 to the pond, and forming its gateway, is a neat 

 Gothic cottage for the fisherman ; and the rock is 

 surmounted by a stone-wall, grey with lichen, and 

 beautifully festooned with honeysuckle, bin-wood, 

 a nd other creeping plants. In every state of wind 



