THE SALMON FAMILY. 297 



netting for Salmon. In the neighbourhood of Hawick, a 

 gang of salmon-poachers, afraid of taking the water on 

 frosty nights, have taught a dog to swim across the river 



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with a cord in his mouth, which he delivers to a man 

 stationed on the opposite side; the net is then dragged 

 over, the end of the cord again given to the dog, who re- 

 crosses the river with it, and, both ends of the line being 

 thus in the hands of the netters, a clean sweep is made. 

 In the Correspondence of the Rev. William Hamilton* 



* Letters concerning the Natural History of Basalts on the Coast of 

 Antrim, 



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