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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. WlLMOT 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 ? " It 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 Salmo 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 coiild be obtained by any pisciculturist at his 

 pleasure ; all he had to do was to hatch from the egg of 

 the Salmo salar a number of little fish, put them into a 

 large body of water from whence they could not reach the 



