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which did get into the sea were considered to be very fine. 
After passing the limit of Long Island, which was the 
limit of the distribution of Salmon, the same barrier of 
warm temperature which seemed to keep the Salmon from 
going up the large rivers, prevented the red-spotted Trout 
from descending from the mountains to the sea; and it 
had really become land-locked by reason of temperature 
barriers in the southern part of its range, though it extended 
into the southern spur of the Alleghanies six or eight 
degrees of latitude farther south than the point at which 
it was able to descend to the sea. The land-locked Salmon 
is a most delicious fish, though not quite so large as the 
Salmo salar ; it was rarely more than eight or ten pounds 
in weight, and, on account of its long detention in fresh 
water and diminution in size, its eggs were considerably 
smaller than those of sea-running Salmon. 
Mr. WILMOT said there was a celebrated American 
showman who once came to England and took away an 
animal called Jumbo. The same gentleman in former 
years exhibited a certain animal at his museum in New 
York which he advertised as the “ What is it?” Jt seemed 
to him the same term might be applied to the land-locked 
Salmon. His impression was that there was no such thing 
in existence as land-locked Salmon, scientifically or natu- 
rally. It was the true Sa/mo salar, which had a different 
coat and a different shape from the water it lived in, in the 
same way that the showman he referred to put a coat on 
the animal he exhibited. 
Land-locked Salmon, which he called Salmo salar, was a 
fish which could be obtained by any pisciculturist at his 
pleasure ; all he had to do was to hatch from the eggs of 
the Sa/mo salar a number of little fish, put them into a 
large body of water trom whence they could not reach the 
