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 in the rocks to run into pentagonal cylinders, 

 and even at Bridge, by Mr. 



Lefly's, is a rock in which the fame difpofi- 

 tion is plainly vifible. I believe the Caufeway 

 would have ftruck me more if I had not feen 

 the prints of StarFa. 



Returned to Lefty Hill ; and Auguft 5th, 

 departed forColeraine. There the right hon. 

 Mr. Jackfon affifted me with the greateft po- 

 litenefs in procuring the intelligence I wifhed 

 about the falmpn fishery, which is the greateft 

 in the kingdom, and viewed both ftfheries 

 above and below the town, very pleafantly 

 fituated on the river Ban. The falmon fpawn 

 fh all the rivers that run into the Ban about 

 the beginning of Auguft, and as foon as they 

 have done, fwim to the fea, where they Hay 

 till January, when they begin to return to the 

 frefh water, and continue doing it till Auguft, 

 in which voyage they are taken ; the nets are 

 fet the middle of January, but by act of par- 

 liament no nets nor weirs can be kept down 

 after the 12th of Auguft. All the fifheries 

 on the river Ban let at 6000I. a year. From 

 the fea to the rock above Coleraine, where 

 the weirs are built, belongs to the London 

 companies ; the greateft part of the reft to 

 Lord Donnegal. The eel fifheries let at 

 ioooh a year, and the falmon fifheries at Cole- 

 rain, ioool. The eels make periodical voy- 

 ages, as the falmon, but inftead of fpawning 

 in the frefh water, they go to the fea to fpawn, 



and 



