THE SALMON. 



/Salmo Solar. 



THIS glorious fellow, who is admitted on all Lands to 

 be the very king of fishes, as regards personal beauty, 

 strength, agility, and speed, as regards excellence upon 

 the table, and as regards the sport he gives to the vigor- 

 ous and skillful angler, is in this month in his prime of 

 health, vigor, and perfection, in all those waters of the 

 United States and British Provinces, wherein he still 

 exists. Within the limits of the former, on the Eastern 

 or Atlantic side of the continent, those waters are 

 confined to a few of the noble and limpid rivers in the 

 State of Maine from the Kennebec, eastward, and to one 

 or two large streams of Northern New York emptying 

 into the St. Lawrence. In the British Provinces of New 

 Brunswick and Canada East, all the waters, whether 

 emptying into the Bay of Fundy or the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, are literally alive with this noble predatory 

 fish, to such an extent that an accomplished fly-fisher, 

 temporarily resident in the first-named province, " offer- 

 ed in 1850 to back himself, for any reasonable amount 

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