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against some of the most terrific mill sluice currents to be found 

 in any river, should have lost a great deal of its encumbering fat, 

 and found itself in the pink of condition, makes it credible that a 

 clean leap of from i5ft. to i6ft. was not beyond the scope of 

 possibility. Recent investigation, with the faithful assistance of 

 the camera, made by Dr. Robert T. Morris, of 49, West Thirty- 



SALMON LEAPING AN i8FT. HIGH FALL ON WHITE BEAR RIVER, 



LABRADOR. 

 (Photographed by Dr. R. T. Morris, of Ne-w York.) 



ninth Street, New York, on Labrador and Newfoundland rivers, 

 give countenance to the latter feat ; indeed, as this gentleman, who 

 has been good enough to send me a large series of his highly 

 interesting negatives for reproduction in these pages, mentions that 

 he accurately measured a clean leap of :8ft. The first illustration 



