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MALACOPTERYGII. —SALMONIDiE* 
this fine fish. Many other kinds of nets and 
seines are also used^ some more general^ others 
more local. In some rocky rivers Salmon are 
taken with the fish-spear^ a mode of fishing that 
requires a quick eye^ and a true hand. And 
numbers fall before the skill and science of the 
enthusiastic fiy-fisher, who counts all other de- 
lights joyless to the excitement of his favourite 
sport. 
In Mr, Jesse’s very interesting Scenes of 
Country Life/’ there is a letter from a nobleman^ 
who had been on a fishing excursion into the 
highlands of Scotland^ on the subject of fiy -fishing 
for Salmon in the sea. From this communication 
we make the following extracts. The particular 
locality is not indicated. 
As far as I am aware there is only one spot 
in the neighbourhood where fish have been so 
taken. About four miles to the south of this 
place^ a small river discharges itself into a creek 
or estuary^ which formerly extended about six 
miles inland^ but half of it has been reclaimed by 
carrying a mound from shore to shore. Within 
about a mile of the mouth of this creek^ the main 
channel of the tide and the river approaches the 
south shore^ and from the point which commands 
this channel^ the fly is used with murderous effect 
at half ebb tide. Having a yacht and boats at 
my disposal^ I anchored the latter two days since 
in the channel^ and I never saw men so astonished 
as some of my Harwich sailors were with the 
spectacle which presented itself^ as they had 
never seen a Salmon except on a fishmonger’s 
stall. The air^ rather than the water^ was alive 
with Salmon and Sea-trout of all sizes^ jumping 
