nal cylinders, and even at a bridge by Mr. Lesly's is a
rock in which the same disposition is plainly visible. I believe the
Causeway would have struck me more if I had not seen the prints of
Staffa.

Returned to Lesly Hill, and on August 5th departed for Coleraine. There
the Right Hon. Mr. Jackson assisted me with the greatest politeness in
procuring the intelligence I wished about the salmon fishery, which is
the greatest in the kingdom, and viewed both fisheries, above and below
the town, very pleasantly situated on the river Ban. The salmon spawn in
all the rivers that run into the Ban about the beginning of August, and
as soon as they have done, swim to the sea, where they stay till January,
when they begin to return to the fresh water, and continue doing it till
August, in which voyage they are taken. The nets are set in the middle
of January, but by Act of Parliament no nets nor weirs can be kept down
after the 12th of August. All the fisheries on the river Ban let at
6,000 pounds a year. From the sea to the rock above Coleraine, where the
weirs are built, belongs to the London companies; the greatest part of
the rest to Lord Donegal. The eel fisheries let at 1,000 pounds a year,
and the salmon fisheries at Coleraine at 1,000 pounds. The eels make
periodical voyages, as the salmon, but instead of spawning in the fresh
water, they go to the sea to spawn, and the young fry return against the
stream; to enable them to do which with greater ease at the leap straw
ropes are hung in the water for them. When they return to sea they are
taken. Many of them weigh nine or ten pounds. The young salmon are
called _grawls_, and grow at a rate which I should suppose scarce any
fish commonly known equals; for within the year some of them will come to
sixteen and eighteen pounds, but in general ten or twelve pounds. Such
as escape the first year's fishery are salmon; and at two years old will
generally weigh twenty to twenty-five pounds. This year's fishery has
proved the greatest that ever was known, and they had the largest haul,
taking 1,452 salmon at one drag of one net. In the year 1758 they had
882, which was the next greatest haul. I had the pleasure of seeing 370
drawn in at once. They have this year taken 400 tons of fish; 200 sold
fresh at a penny and three-halfpence a pound, and two hundred salted, at
18 pounds and 20 pounds per ton, which are sent to London, Spain, and
Italy. The fishery employs eight