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INDEX. 



Thames Salmon, high price 

 of, 39 ; Mr. Waring's an- 

 ecdote of, 39 ; very large 

 one, 40 ; various large ones, 

 40; Killarney method of 

 cooking, 41 ; and silver 

 spoon, 42 ; paste and roe, 



42 ; curious occurrence, 42 ; 

 Mr. Anderson's ring in a, 



43 ; in the Wye, 44 ; eagles 

 carrying off, 44 ; Leistering, 

 190; roe, how dressed for 

 bait, 239 



Salmon Trout, 51 



Salt-water Fish in a fresh-wa- 

 ter pool, 209 ; preserve at 

 Valley field, 211 



Sand Eel Fishing in Ireland, 

 186 



Sandwich Islands, salt-water 

 ponds in the, 210 



Scales of Fish, 229 



Scales denoting the age of Fish, 

 229 



Seals eaten, 243 



Sea gulls caught with a hook, 

 238 



Sea water basins at Peterhead, 

 209 



Sensibility of all Fish when 

 hooked, 58 



Shad, habits of, 68; in the 

 Severn, 68 ; in Hudson's Ri- 

 ver, 68 ; peculiar method of 

 catching in Germany, 69 



Sheep's head, 155' 



Showers of Fishes, 243, 245 ; 

 of herrings, 244 ; of shells in 

 Ireland, 244 ; of muscles in 

 America, 246 ; of toads or 

 frogs, 246 



Skeleton of small Fishes (me- 

 thod of obtaining the) 246 



Sicily, destructive method of 

 fishing in, 196 



Silver Fish, 228 



Similitude between Fish and 

 Birds, 238 



Smell in Fish, 238 



Smelts, why so called, and 

 method of catching, 70 ; an- 

 ecdote relating thereto, 71 ; 

 very large at Monte Video, 

 210 ; in fresh water, 210 



Snipes caught with a hook, 240 



Solan Geese, 196 



Sole pritching, 196 



Solomjianka, 158 



Soubatka, 157 



Spade, Fishing with a, 195 



Sparrow Hawk caught by hook 

 and line, 239 



Spams, four-footed, 157 



Stickleback good for baits, 131 ; 

 as manure, 131 ; springs 

 very high, and is very pug- 

 nacious, 132 



Sturgeon, 159; fishery, 169; 

 in Siberia, 160; eggs, 161 



Superstition of Montrose Fish- 

 ermen, 239 



Surinam, angling at, 197 ; 

 Fishes of, 161 



Swallows caught with a hook, 

 240 



Tcho-kia-yu, or, in French, 

 1'Encuirasse, 222 



Temperature of Fishes, 247 



Tench, habits of, 108 ; mode 

 of capture, 108 ; ponds of 

 Mr. Western, 108 ; weigh- 

 ing ten pounds, 108 



Thames' Salmon, high price 

 of, 39 



Theophrastus' treatise upon 

 Fishes, 248 



Tonquin, Fishing in, 198 



Towyn Lake, Fishing on the, 

 198 



Trout, habits of, 45 ; catching 

 by native tact, 46 ; caught 



