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name given to the fifh at that age: the end of July, 
or beginning of Augujt they leffen in number, but 
encreafe in fize, fome being fix, feven, eight, or 
nine pounds in weight; this appears to be a furpri- 
fine quick growth, yet we have received from a gen- Quicte 
tleman at Warrington, an inftance {till more fo: a sow 
kipper falmon weighing 7lb. three quarters, taken 
on the 7th of February, being marked with a {ciffars 
on the back, fin, and tail, and turned into the river, 
was again taken the 17th of March following, and 
~ then was found to weigh 171b. and a half. 
The capture in the Tweed, about the month of Capture, 
Fuly, 1s prodigious; in a good fifhery, often a boat 
load, and fometimes near two, are taken in a tide: 
fome few years ago there were above feven hundred 
fifh taken at one hawl, but from fifty to a hundred 
is very frequent : the coopers in Berwick then begin 
to falt both Salmon and Gil/es in pipes, and other large 
veffels, and afterwards barrel* them to fend abroad; 
having then far more than the London markets can 
take off their hands. 
Moft of the falmon taken before April, or to the 
fetting in of the warm weather, is fent frefh to Lon 
don in bafkets, unlefs now and then the veffel is difz 
appointed by contrary winds, of failing immediately; 
ir. that cafe the fifh is brought afhore again to the 
coopers offices, and boiled, pickled, and kitted, and 
fent to the Loxdon markets by the fame fhip, and 
frefh falmon put in the bafkets in lieu of the ftale 
ones. At the beginning of the feafon, when a fhip 
® The falmon barrel holds above forty-two gallons, wine. 
meafure. 
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