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In the river Tweed, about the month of July, the 

 capture of Salmon is astonishing : often a boat-load, 

 and sometimes near two, may be taken at a tide ; 

 and hi one instance above seven hundred fish were 

 caught at a single haul of the net. From fifty to a 

 hundred at a haul is very common. Most of those 

 that are taken from before the setting-in of the warm 

 weather are sent fresh to London, if the weather 

 will permit. The others are salted, pickled, or dricc^ 

 and are sent off in barrels, in quantities sufficient, 

 not only to stock the London markets, bur, alsc 

 some of the markets of the continent ; for the 

 former are by no means able to take all the fish that 

 are caught here 



The season for fishing commences in the Tweed 

 on the thirtieth of November, and ends about old 

 Michaelmas day. On this river there are above forty 

 considerable fisheries, which extend upwards about 

 fourteen miles from the mouth; besides many others 

 of less consequence. These, several years ago, were 

 rented at above the annual sum of ten thousand 

 pounds j and to defray this expence it has been cal- 

 culated that more than 200,090 Salmon must be 

 caught there one year with another. 



The Scotch fisheries are very productive ; as are 

 also several of those in Ireland, particularly that at 

 Cranna on the river Ban, about a mile and a half 

 from Coleraine. At this place, in the year 1760, 

 as many as three hundred and twenty tons were 

 taken. 



A person of the name of Graham, who farms the 

 sea-coast fishery at Whitehaven, has adopted a sue- 

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