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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: gatown and iis Of the two hundred and fifty-three different kinds of fish which inhabit the rivers and seas of Britain, the salmon is the one about which we know more than any other, and for these reasons: ?It is of greater value as property; its large size better admits of observation than smaller members of the fish family; and lastly, in consequence of its migratory instinct, we have access to it at those seasons of its life when to observe its habits is the certain road to information. And yet, with all these advantages?or rather, in consequence of them?there has been a vast amount of controversy as to the birth, breeding, and growth of the salmon. There has been the impregnation controversy, the parr controversy, the smolt dispute, the grilse controversy, and the rate-of-growth quarrel. These scientific and literary combats have been fought at intervals, and have generally exhibited the temper and the learning of the combatants in about equal proportions. The dates of these controversies are not so easily fixed as could be desired, seeing that they are either scattered at intervals through the transactions of learned societies, buried in heavy encyclopaedias, or lost in the columns of newspapers. There is something almost akin to romance in the history of the salmon, and about the manner in which the various disputed points as to its birth and mode of growth have been solved?if, indeed, some of these points be yet settled. The mere facts in the biography of the salmon are not very numerous; it is the fiction with which this particular fish has been invested by those ignorant of its history, that has made it a greater object of interest than it would otherwise have been. The eggs of the female are laid in the secluded and shallow tributary of some great salmon river, in...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217751735 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217751733 |
| Weight | 2.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.61 In |
| List Price | $44.08 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 734 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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