THE LAND-LOCKED SALMON. 85 



In the Labrador rivers there are ranges of falls near the sea, 

 to get over which the Salmon have to await suitable stages of 

 water; in some instances these falls are almost insurmount- 

 able, but in most cases there are large, deep lakes above them 

 abounding in fish-food, and connected by stretches of swift 

 water, broken by falls and rocky rapids. 



"Land-locked," therefore, is rather a misnomer, if it is 

 meant to imply any natural and involuntary restriction upon 

 a return to the sea. But as all other designations are merely 

 local names, and it is hard to find a satisfactory one, it may 

 as well be retained. 



It remains to be seen how far it is true that these so-called 

 Land-locked Salmon would not go to the sea if they could. 

 Mr. George F. Boardman, in a letter to Mr. Hallock, given in 

 full in the Sportsman s Gazetteer, states that in his boy- 

 hood they were plentiful in most of the rivers of the Bay of 

 Fundy, as well as along the State of Maine; that they were 

 common to the tide-waters, and were taken as far down as 

 there were fish-weirs. Mr. C. G. Atkins says: 



"There is nothing at present to prevent any of these Salmon 

 going out to sea from any of those waters where they are 

 now found. There are no obstructions to their coming back 

 if they once went to the sea; and these same obstructions 

 would prevent the sea Salmon having access to the upper 

 waters where the Land-locked Salmon now live." 



As Dr. Francis Day observes, it is certainly remarkable that 

 among the Scandinavian land-locked races some are found 

 in a number of lakes with broad outlets into the sea. This 

 exactly corresponds with my own observations in Labrador, 

 where I found the Saltno Sebago in tidal but fresh water, as 

 well as at the outlet of the lakes, and in company with the 

 true Salmon and Grilse, which gave an admirable opportunity 

 of direct comparison of the two varieties. I was fortunate in 

 having with me a Saguenay canoe-man, in whose company I 

 had caught many a Wananishe. The first of the Labrador 



