16 THE SALMON FISHER. 



the region north of Cape Cod ; sometimes permanently landlocked in 

 lakes, where its habits and coloration (but no tangible specific characters,) 

 change somewhat, when it becomes (in America) var. Sabago*. One of the 

 best known and most valued of fishes. 



The above are the latest authorized formula of the 

 Atlantic salmon, though the weight is underrated ; 

 for in the rivers Bestigouche and Grand Cascape- 

 diac, in Canada, specimens have been taken which 

 weighed 60 Ibs., and in Europe over 80 Ibs. This 

 species (Solar) is the representative salmon of Europe, 

 the New England coast, the St. Lawrence basin, and 

 the Maritime Provinces of the Canadian Dominion, 

 and as this is the only true Atlantic salmon, it will 

 be convenient for identification, and fully serve the 

 purpose of this paper,' to divide the Family generi- 

 cally into Atlantic Salmon and Pacific Salmon, and 

 so to refer to them in the matter of designation and 

 distinction. With respect to the Atlantic variety, 

 its southern natural limit, within historical time, is . 

 unquestionably the Hudson Eiver. [It is not within 

 the scope of this article to refer to introduced or 

 transplanted species]. That the Hudson was a sal- 

 mon stream when discovered by Hendrick Hudson 



* Also var. Winninish. ED. 



