. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. majority of instances; but ft would appeSSwbm the observations of Dr. Hcysbam and Sir William Jardinc, that if they have roved to a very great distance from the estuary of their own stream, they betake themselves to the mouth of the first river they reach, if its temperature and the condition of its waters suits them. Many Tweed Salmon are occasionally taken in the frith of Forth, and it is even said that i
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. majority of instances; but ft would appeSSwbm the observations of Dr. Hcysbam and Sir William Jardinc, that if they have roved to a very great distance from the estuary of their own stream, they betake themselves to the mouth of the first river they reach, if its temperature and the condition of its waters suits them. Many Tweed Salmon are occasionally taken in the frith of Forth, and it is even said that in seasons when the Forth fisheries are unusu- ally successful, those of the Tweed are as much the reverse. Sir Hum- phrey Davy is of opinion that the taste of the waters of different rivers, according as they are impregnated with different substances, and the effect produced by them on the bronchioe of the fish in the act of breathing, are the guides by which Salmon are led back to the streams to which they have been accustomed; and he accounts for their being occasionally mistaken, by the fact that such mistakes frequently occur during great floods, connected with storms, or violent motion in the waters near the shore ; by which the components of the watery are disturbed, and their flavor consequently altered. In confirmation of this view, he relates that he " remembers in this way, owing to a tre- meneious flood, catching with the fly a large Salmon which had mista- ken his stream, having come into the Bush, near the Giant's Cause- way, instead of the Bann. No fish can be more distinct," he proceeds, " in the same species, than the fish of these two rivers, their length to their girth being in a ratio of 20 : 9 and 20 : ; I am not, however, inclined to adopt this explanation. For it seems to me that in migratory animals of all kinds, and indeed, in some instances, in domestic animals likewise, that there is some sort of sixth sense, or at least some en
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