Class IV. SALMON. s-91 



Ireland (particularly the north) abounds with this Irelan®.o 

 lilh : the moft confiderable fifhery is at Cranna^ 

 on the river Ban^ about a mile and an half from 

 Coleraine, When I made the tour of that hofpi- 

 table kingdom in 1754, it was rented by a neigh- 

 boring gentleman for 620/. a year, who affured me 

 that the tenant, his predeceiTor, gave 1600/. per 

 ann. and was a much greater gainer by the bargairi 

 for the reafons before-mentioned, and on account 

 of the number of poachers who deftroy the fifh in 

 the fence months. 



The mouth of this river faces the north, and is 

 finely fituated to receive the fifh that roam along 

 the coaft^ in fearch of an inlet into fome frefh water^ 

 as they do all along that end of the kingdom which 

 oppofes itfelf the northern ocean. We have feen 

 near Bdllkaftle^ nets placed in the fea at the foot 

 of the promontories that jut into it, which the fal- 

 mon ftrike into as they are wandering clofe to fhorej, 

 and numbers are taken by that method. 



In the Ban they filh with nets eighteen fcore 

 yards long, and are continually drawing night and 

 day the whole feafon, which we think lads about 

 four months, two fets of fixteen men each alter- 

 nately relieving one another. The bed drawing is 

 when the tide is coming in: we were told that at a 

 iingle draught there were once eight hundred and 

 forty fifh taken. 



A few miles higher up the river is a ware, where 

 ^ confiderable number of fifli that efcape the nets 



U ^ - are 



