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with salmon. These lakeSj which are but a few miles from the 

 far-famed Ballinahinch lakes, are some sixteen in number, 

 connected by a number of small channels and rivulets. Many 

 of these channels were cut by a former proprietor, who 

 made some ineffectual attempts to introduce salmon into 

 the lakes. They have, I may mention, for years abounded 

 in very fine white trout, but up to the last year or so 

 salmon had not taken to them. Two years since Mr. 

 Eamsbottom induced the present proprietors to try their 

 luck at artificial breeding, and so far succeeded that 18,000 

 fry were hatched out the year before last under his super- 

 intendence, a large proportion of which became smolts. In 

 the first year 700 of these smolts were marked, a large 

 number went to the sea, but many remained behind for 

 another year. May, June, July, went over, August came, 

 and, in spite of the most careful watching, not a fish re- 

 appeared. Mr. Eamsbottom has hecks and a grating in 

 the river, so that he must see all that goes up. August, 

 ■ September, and indeed the whole year, went over, and not 

 a single salmon showed itself in the river. Mr. Kamsbot^ 

 torn was almost in despair, thinking the experiment an 

 utter failure. Nevertheless, they determined not to give 

 it up, but decided upon hatching on a larger scale, and 

 200,000 ova were laid down and duly hatched. Not a 

 fish of them was marked, be it remembered. As for the 

 fish of the previous year, Mr. Eamsbottom had almost 

 given them up, when one morning early in the ensuing 

 season (the one just completed) he received a note from his 

 son, who is in charge of the fishery, to say that he had 

 either seen a shoal of salmon in the bay or some very large 



