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rivers of Aberdeen and Perthshire, they 

 are called phinocs, or fmnocks. Several 

 persons have supposed the whitling to be a 

 young salmon, but this opinion is as little 

 supported by conclusive facts as that which 

 declares them to be produced between a 

 salmon and a trout. The young of the several 

 species of the salmon genus, to speak in 

 sober truth, are not easily distinguished ; 

 and I am inclined to think that there are 

 few persons notwithstanding that there are 

 many who make great pretensions who 

 know much respecting the habits of the 

 salmon tribe. One person, who professes 

 to be well acquainted with the habits of the 

 salmon, states that the clean fish which enter 

 the rivers between February and August 

 continue there until after spawning time, 

 which is, according to the weather, from the 

 1st of November to the latter end of January, 

 thus making them continue in the fresh 

 .water from twelve to five months. Another 

 person, who has possessed similar oppor- 



