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—December and January clean fish entering it, 
when they can ; but the state of things here is pretty 
much like that described with regard to the Island 
Bridge Fishery in the Liffey. The upward fish have 
been stopped by the weir in the town of Sligo, and 
accumulated below it, where on the 1st of February 
an ample haul is generally effected. There are other 
instances of the “ presence” as the naturalists say, of 
these early fish, besides those to which I have re- 
ferred, but it would be too tedious a proceeding to 
enumerate them ; so I shall finish my yarn, which I 
fear I have already spun to an unwarrantable length, 
with the Munin in Mayo. This river and the Owen- 
more unite just above the head of the tideway. The 
Munin flows from Carramore lake ; the Owenmore is 
not connected with a ldke; “clean” and “foul” fish 
come up the estuary in company in December and 
January ; all the clean fish turn up the former, a// the 
foul fish up the latter. From the close connection of 
these two towns, they are often quoted as the great 
example in Ireland of the anomalous proceedings of 
those fish, after all comparatively very few, which 
take up their quarters in the fresh-water lakes or deep 
pools of rivers to sojourn there so long before their 
spawning-time arrives. 
And now, to sum up for the jury of naturalists, 
_ who it is expected will give the case of the migrat- 
ing of salmon their attentive consideration. I would 
