J90 COMMON SALMON. Class IV. 



more, which together makes up the sum 

 10400/. Now in consequence the produce' 

 must defray all, and no less than twenty times 

 that sum of fishes will effect it, so that 208000 

 salmon must be caught there one year with 

 another. 



There is a misfortune attending the river 

 Tweed, which is worthy a parlementary remedy ; 

 for there is no law for preserving the fish in it 

 during the fence months, as there is in the case 

 of many other British rivers. This being the 

 boundary between the two kingdoms, part of it 

 belongs to the city of Berxvick, and the whole 

 north side (beginning about two miles from the 

 town) is entirely Scotch property. From some 

 disagreement between the parties they will not 

 unite for the preservation of the fish, so that in 

 some fisheries on the north side they continue 

 killing salmon the whole winter, when the death 

 of one fish is the destruction of thousands.* 



The legislature began very early to pay at- 

 tention to this important article : by the 1 3th 

 Edward I. there is an act which prohibits the 

 capture of the salmon from the Nativity of our 

 Lady to St. Martins Day, in the waters of the 

 Humber, Ozvse, Trent, Done, Arre, Derwent, 



* I think that this grievance is now removed. 



