CHAPTER X. 



npHOUGH rarely taken by the rod higher up the 

 -*- St. Lawrence than the mouth of the river Ottawa, 

 the true Salmon (Salmo salar) is netted as far inland 

 as the western extremity of Lake Ontario, a distance 

 from the open sea which may be roughly estimated at 

 about a thousand miles. 



In the case of small rivers, it is well known that 

 Salmon generally wait in the vicinity of the mouth until 

 the waters are sufficiently swollen by the rains, when they 

 run up in great numbers, seldom resting in the pools 

 along its course as long as the water continues in spate, 

 their instinct teaching them to advance while it is possible 

 to do so. In large rivers like the St. Lawrence, how- 

 ever, they run up in greater or less numbers almost daily 

 throughout the usual season, entering it as soon as the 

 ice begins to melt along the shores of the Gulf, which 

 they usually leave with the reflux. The sooner the ice 

 disappears from the river, therefore, the sooner the 

 Salmon enter it. They are said to arrive in greater 



