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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 once 

 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 Salmo 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 Salmo 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 some 

 of 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 



