44 LAW OF THE FISHERY. 



called a branch of the Rhine, or their fish to be called Rhine 

 salmon, which the superintendent of the Van Briennan fishery- 

 said were inferior fish, but in this he is evidently wrong. The 

 total quantity of salmon taken from the waters of Holland and 

 from the lower Rhine is, of course, very large, great quantities 

 of them being sent to Paris, Brussels, London, Edinburgh, and 

 other populous places. The Scottish people, and they are good 

 judges, do not like the Dutch salmon so well as their own fine 

 'curded fish ; those taken in the estuaries of Holland are too oUy 

 and rich, whUst those taken a few hundred miles up the Rhine 

 are rather lean and flavourless to suit the epicures of Scotland. 



