Then the whole distance would contain the space of 4,000 square acres, and the annual rent for fishing would amount to over 3 pounds 13s.

per acre.
This would make every fish-bearing acre of the river worth 100 pounds, calculated on the land basis of interest or rent.
Having heard of the Stormontfields' Ponds for breeding salmon, I had a great desire to see them.

They are situated on the Tay, a few miles above Perth, and are well worthy of the inspection and admiration of the scientific as well as the utilitarian world.

The process is as simple as it is successful and valuable.

A race or canal, filled with a clear, mountain stream, and constructed many years ago to supply motive power to a corn-mill, runs parallel with the river, at the distance from it of about twenty rods.