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of from five to eight shillings a pound. The 

 same vile practice exists on the Eden, though 

 scarcely to so great an extent as on the Der- 

 went, and a great part of the roe so obtained 

 finds its way into several other counties ; for 

 the writer has known from his own expe- 

 rience, salmon roe which had been obtained 

 from the Derwent, employed as bait in the 

 Annan, the Tweed, the Wharf above Otley, 

 and at Driffield. 



In the autumn of 1802, Keswick and 

 the peaceful vale of Buttermere were visited 

 by a plausible swindler of the name of 

 Hatfield, who assumed the name of the Ho- 

 nourable Col. Hope, then member of Par- 

 liament for Dumfries shire, and in that 

 character married an interesting girl, after- 

 wards so much spoken of as Mary of Butter- 

 mere, the daughter of the person who kept 

 the inn there. After figuring in the above 

 character for two or three months, though 

 not without suspicion of his being an impos- 

 tor, the fraud was detected and exposed by 



