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water near them for half a mile on each side. 

 This little river is no exception this season, — 

 there are two streams, equally as small, 

 running through Mr. O'Rork's and Mr. Jack- 

 son's lands, at the top of Grange river, where 

 a great many salmon have spawned this 

 season, and where we never observed any- 

 thing but trout before." 



I myself have never had the opportunity 

 of examining a salmon's nest, but I have, to 

 use the schoolboy's expression, " robbed " 

 many a trout's nest. One knows the nest by 

 observing in the bed of the river a hillock, or 

 mound of gravel, about a wheelbarrow full, 

 and a hollow sort of ditch in front of it, as 

 though some one had been scraping it up 

 with his heel. About the beginning of this 



