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sea, and if they found food congenial to their wants, they 
would grow and develope into a large fish, slightly changed 
in colour and scarcely perceptibly in form. Such had been 
his experience in America and Canada. Lake Ontario was 
filled with this fish. When he was a youth he had known 
thousands killed in one night, and the farmers caught them 
in such numbers as they entered the streams to deposit 
their ova, that some of them got enough to buy their farms 
with. In the stream which ran within a few yards from 
where he was born and brought up he had killed hundreds 
and thousands of them on their migration up from their sea, 
Lake Ontario, into the smaller streams and rivers to de- 
posit their ova, in the same same way as the Sa/mo salar 
left the ocean and ascended rivers. For want of proper 
precautions, proper protection and good legislation, this 
Salmon had almost disappeared from Lake Ontario. At 
first there were no laws in the country, and consequently 
every man killed as he pleased, and as the poor creatures 
came up, they were destroyed right and left. The Indians 
killed them, and the white Indians killed them still more. 
To prove that the Sa/mo sebago was the true Salmo salar, 
he might say that he had taken eggs of Salmo salar, im- 
pregnated them, hatched them, and taken them up into 
the rivers running into Lake Huron; and to-day nothing 
but the true Salmo salar were found in Lake Huron, 
though smaller than were found along the coast. That 
was evidence to show that you might make land-locked 
Salmon in any water you chose where the fish could find 
congenial food, and where they could not get to the sea. 
It might be said, How could the Salmon in Lake Ontario 
be said to be land-locked when the St. Lawrence emptied 
that lake into the sea? Salmon were feeders in the sea 
and breeders in fresh water ; they migrated annually to the 
