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had your satisfaction in a good day's salmon 

 fishing. 



PHYS. We shall crimp and cool a salmon, 

 if we catch a good one, for our dinner. 



HAL. Do so. 



ORN. But before you leave us, I wish 

 you would be good enough to inform us why 

 the salmon here are so different from those 

 I have seen elsewhere; for instance, some 

 caught in the Alness, in Rosshire, which we 

 saw in passing round the south coast of 

 Ross. These appear to me, thicker and 

 brighter fish, and one that I measured was 

 30 inches long, and 17 in circumference. 



HAL. I think I have seen broader fish 

 than even those of this river; but the salmon 

 which you happen to remember for compa- 

 rison, belonged to a small stream, which, I 

 think, in general are thinner and longer than 

 those in great rivers; and what I mentioned 

 on a former occasion with respect to trout, 

 holds good likewise with regard to salmon; 

 each river has a distinct kind. It is scarcely 

 possible to doubt that the varieties of the 

 salmon which haunt the sea, come to the 

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