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were a landlocked species. My only ground for the 

 conclusion was that the fish were never seen in the 

 lower river. [How could they be ?1 At present, in 

 revision of that antique hypothesis, I would write : 

 "In winter they are scattered through the deep 

 water of Lake St. John, and in June ascend the rapids 

 to spawn," having previously visited the sea, which 

 they would do ad libitum at any season of the year, 

 "being at no time ice-locked. 



The above characteristics are equally true of the 

 salmon of the Schoodic Lakes and the St. Croix River 

 in Maine and New Brunswick ; and there are also 

 the same fluvial conditions, the lakes with their trib- 

 utaries or feeders, the riffs below the outlets, and 

 the salt sea at the river's mouth, which the fish in- 

 stinctively sought in old times until disbarred by 

 artificial obstructions. Indeed, it is now known 

 that the range of the landlocked salmon is not only 

 conterminous with that of the sea salmon, but that its 

 types correspond with the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean 

 types. It is not only distributed throughout Quebec, 

 Ontario, and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, as 

 well as Maine, but it occurs in British Columbia and 



