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mouth, which he swallowed. The fish appear oc- 
casionally to disagree among themselves, as I saw 
one Cod with one eye apparently bitten out, and 
hanging over its cheek. 
At the time of my visit there were only three 
kinds of fish in the pond, viz.. Cod, Flounder, 
and a® small fish of about three pounds weight 
(the name of which has escaped my memory ) ; 
but they frequently preserve Salmon in the same 
way, besides other kinds. The manner in which 
they keep up the stock is this. The son of the 
female who has the charge of the ^ preserve ’ goes 
out to sea in a boat with a tub or well ; and when 
he catches any fish that he thinks will do, he 
preserves them in the well, from which he trans- 
fers them to the pond, where, in due time, from 
a month to six weeks, they become tame. A 
curious scene occurred on one occasion when he 
put a Mackerel into the pond : there was a gene- 
ral chase after the unfortunate fish, which only 
saved itself from being devoured by the larger and 
more ferocious denizens of the place, by running 
itself on a ledge of rock.”^ 
The following remarkable anecdote, commu- 
nicated to Mr. Jesse by a respectable gentleman 
in Scotland, would appear to prove that even 
fishes are not destitute of that measure of reason- 
ing power which enables them to combine cause 
with effect. I was ordered to take the cutter I 
commanded to Port Nessock, near Port Patrick. 
On landing, I was informed of Colonel M^Dowall’s 
sea fish-pond, and went to look at it. On arriving, 
I fed the large Cod out of my hand from some 
mussels which I had in a basin. I purposely, 
* New Sport. Mag. yoI. xiii. 12. 
