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ocean. I do not think the salmon a deep-sea fish. 

 If a river runs into a sea or frith, having a northern 

 and southern direction, sahnon, when they emigrate 

 to either, take towards the north in search of feeding 

 grounds, and return southwards to their native riv- 

 ers. When the salmon resort to a sea lying east 

 and west — the English Channel, for instance — I dd 

 not know which direction they take — ^whether they 

 go eastward or westward. Would any naturalist of 

 Hampshire or Devonshire tell whether the salmon 

 of the rivers of those counties, when repairing to 

 their salt-water feeding-grounds, proceed in the 

 direction of the Atlantic or of the German Ocean ? 



This lesson is now long enough. I have not 

 mentioned some of the minor habits of the salmon. 

 I shall do so hereafter, not forgetting some of its 

 wonderful instincts, great and rapid powers of diges- 

 tion, and consequent incredible voracity, and rapidity 

 of increase. I hope that those who are engaged in 

 breeding the salmon artificially, who have studied or 

 are studying its history and habits, will assist me 

 during the winter months in the objects I have in 

 view — preserving and multiplying salmon so as to 

 render it as abundant and cheap in our markets as 

 the cod-fish. They can assist me by correcting any 

 errors into which I may have fallen, or by giving' 

 additional information on points upon which I have 

 not been sufficiently nainute, or by dUatiug on points 

 that have escaped my notice, or of which I am 

 ignorant. 



