■will not return, and could they speak, methinks they'd say, 

 destroying us brings injury to yourselves. Eeader ! dost 

 thou know the habits of the Salmon ? Dost thou know 

 that the river -wherein they are spawned, is to them a 

 homestead ; that even as a school-boy returns joyously to 

 his home at the holiday season, so do these fish return 

 from the briny deep, — the young to frolic, and the old to 

 seek the soft sandy-gravelly bed, wherein to deposit their 

 ova or spawn, and from whence they themselves were 

 brought into existence. 



Man, the destroyer man — commenced a war of exter- 

 mination, hunted them with nets of all description, — with 

 spear, with hook, with lister, poisoned them with, lime, 

 spearing them by torch-light — mangling and wounding as 

 many as he killed — and to crown all — denied them a 

 right of way, by building Dams — and thus destroyed 

 their fisheries indeed. 



I have said that the fish are dogged, and sullen. All 

 sportsmen know what I mean. Prevent them from reach- 

 ing their old haunts — their spawning beds, and experience 

 proves, that it is with difiiculty they are enticed back. Good 

 laws, time, and a right of way, may induce them to return. 

 The mother country killed the " Golden Goose," and now 

 has to pay dear for her eggs, and as Ephemera — of 

 London " Bell's Life" says, " it is only the wealthy that 

 can make the purchase." 



" We have frequently seen a band of men come down 

 the celebrated Salmon rivers in the North of England and 

 in Scotland, with a horse and cart, and in a short space of 

 time, catch as niany as the animal could draTv, in fact, the 

 destruction of Salmon at this season of the year (October 



