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salmon, of which I give the dates and weights in 

 English measure. 



June 24th, 1844 . . T salmon of 4 Ibs. 



July 1 2th, . . i 16 Ibs. 



i3th, . . i nj Ibs. 



1 6th, . . i i6\ Ibs. 



26th, . . i 15 Ibs. 



August 2oth, ,, . . i 8 Ibs. 



22nd, . . i 14^ Ibs. 



26th, . . 2 25^ and 13^ Ibs. 



3ist, . . 2 13^ and 6J Ibs. 



September 5th, . . 2 8 and 6^ Ibs. 



7th, ...! 15^- Ibs. 



9th, . . i ,,15 Ibs. 



On sundry occasions I have been broken by salmon 

 running me out a lot of line into the middle of the 

 falls, and getting round or under something, I never 

 could make out what. There was a tradition that a 

 carriage of some kind had once fallen over the em- 

 bankment that is near some iron-works, where there 

 is a huge hammer worked by the falls, or rather a 

 stream led from the falls. And another had it that 

 there was a sort of wall or dam at the bottom, but 

 sure it was there was something of the kind in a 

 great depth of water, and under or round this my 

 fish often got. There was no way of moving them, 



