11 MAY 1907, Page 16

THE SALMON LEAP.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "srserAroa.1 Sra,—A propos of your article on the salmon leap in the issue of May 4th, the following ingenious explanation given by John Speed in his "Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain," edition 1876, may interest some of your readers :—" [The salmon] still coveting into fresh water rivers, at their down-right fulls useth this policy : He bendeth himself backward, and taketh his tail in his mouth, and with all his strength unloosing his circle on the sudden (as a lath let go) mounteth up before the tall of

the stream : wherefore such water-falls are called the Salmons