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coast of Iceland ; it is said to be rare near Greenland, while it is frequent 

 near Boston, thus being found 15 degrees farther south on the western 

 shores of the North Atlantic Ocean than on its eastern shores. This fact 

 certainly is a striking proof of the influence of the Arctic current. It 

 lives in deep waters where sea- weeds grow, and is consequently but little 

 known and rarely caught even in localities where it is frequent.* 



We will, among the last of the Arctic- Atlantic varieties, mention the 

 one which is mostly found in fresh water, viz, the Lota vulgaris. This 

 fish is found throughout the greater portion of Central, Northern, and 

 Eastern Europe as far as the western, northern and northeastern portion 

 of Asia and the northern portion of North America {Lota maculosa). Its 

 most westerly limit in Europe is in the llhine, near Manheim ; it is 

 common in the Keuss, near Sis.siugen, and in the Lake of Constance, in 

 the Weser, the Elbe, tbe Moldau, near Budweiss in Bohemia, near 

 Teschen on the Oder, and in the Vistula. It is very common in the 

 region of the Danube, in the Danube near Passau, in the Salzach, the 

 Weitra, in the Traun Lake, the After Lake, Hallstadter Lake, Fuschler 

 Lake, Mond Lake, and Zirknitzer Lake : in the river Drau, in the river 

 Eamp near Zwettel, near Datschiz in Moravia, in Transylvania, in the 

 river Stry in Galicia. The most southerly point where it is found in the 

 region of the Po is the Garda Lake. It is found in the Swiss lakes, 

 in the St. Maurice Lake at a height of 5,580 feet, and in the Lake of 

 Seelisberg, near the Lake of the Four Cantons at a height of 2,240 feet. 

 On the other side of the channel it is found in the west of England and 

 in Scotland, in Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Durham, in the rivers 

 Cam, Trent, Thames, Ouse, Esk, Skern, Tees, Derwent, and also in the 

 Firth of Forth; also in Central Scandinavia — Gotaelf — and Northern 

 Scandinavia, in Finmarken and Lapland. In Eussia it is found nearly 

 everywhere, in the Neva near St. Petersburg, in Lake Balamis in 

 Eussian Lapland, according to Eathke, in the Black Sea, and, according 

 to Pallas, in the Obi Eiver ; it is very common in the river Lena an-d 

 in the Northern Polar Sea as far as the Indigirka Eiver, also in the Pen- 

 shina Eiver which flows into the Sea of Ochotsk. In North America it 

 is common in Canada and in the neighboring portions of the United 

 States, as well as in the lakes and rivers of the Hudson Bay region. It 

 is found in Lake Madawaska in Canada, and in the sea near Pine Island 

 in the Strait of Florida.! It likes the deep, cool, and clear bays of the 

 sea or the deep basins of the ocean, but it is likewise found in large and 

 small rivers and ponds both in flat and mountainous countries, in lakes 

 frequently at a depth of 180 to 240 feet. 



c. The following are Scandinavian varieties : Gadiis LsmarJcii Nilss. 

 is only found on the south coast of Norway, in the Christiana fiord. 

 Molva ahyssorum Miss, is perhaps the same as the Gadus harhatus in 



* Sea-weeds do not grow in water deeper than 25 fathoms. Brosmim vulgaris (= B. 

 trosme) is by no meaus rarely caught. — B. 

 t Rather Piue Island Lake, in the Hudson's Bay region. — B, 



