. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. YOUNG SALMON. 105. lie ova Ital to the just 'hiting" ors of Is been ) three ialmon ' If 1 lowed 'iist at whole isou it eult to sheries by his do the > state, 1 taken. THE ril'E I'ISII (^Sll>iillilltlill>, ). parr was or was not the young of the salmon—and arrived at a solid conclusion, was James Hoo;^', the Ettriok Shepherd, who, in his usual impulsive way, proeecdetl to verify his opinions. He had, wh
. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. YOUNG SALMON. 105. lie ova Ital to the just 'hiting" ors of Is been ) three ialmon ' If 1 lowed 'iist at whole isou it eult to sheries by his do the > state, 1 taken. THE ril'E I'ISII (^Sll>iillilltlill>, ). parr was or was not the young of the salmon—and arrived at a solid conclusion, was James Hoo;^', the Ettriok Shepherd, who, in his usual impulsive way, proeecdetl to verify his opinions. He had, while heixling sheep, many oppor- tunities of watching the fishin<j streams, and, like most of his class, he wielded his iishiiig-rod with con- siderable skill. While angling in the trilmtaries of some of the Border salmon-streams, he had often caught the parr as it was changing into the smolt, and had, after close observation, come to the conclusion that the little parr was none other than the infant salmon. Mr. Hogg did not keep his discovery a secret, and the more his facts were controverted by the naturalists of the day the louder became his proclamations. He had suspected all his life that parr were salmon in their first stage. He would catch a parr with a few struggling scales upon itj he would look at this fish, and think it queer; instantly he would catch another, a little better covered with silver scales, but all loose, and not adhering to the body. Again, he would catch a smolt, manifestly a smolt, all covered with the white silver scales, yet still rather loose upon the skin, which would come off in his hand. Removing these scales, he found the parr with the blue finger-marks below them, and that the tish were young salmon then became as manifest to the shepherd as that a lamb, if suffered to live, would become a sheep. Wondering at this, he marked a great number of the lesser fish, and offered rewards (characteristically enough, of whisky) to the peasantry to b
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