In all cases the small figures to the right indicate the natural size.]

[Illustration: THE SALMON LEAPING AT THE FALL IS A MOST FASCINATING

SPECTACLE

Again and again we see them jumping out of the seething foam beneath the

fall, casting themselves into the curtain of the down-rushing water,

only to be carried back by it into the depths whence they have risen.

One here and another there makes its effort good, touches the upper lip

of the cataract, gives a swift stroke of its tail, and rushes on towards

those upper reaches which are the immemorial spawning beds of its

race.]

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