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that they are taken annually at the mouths of the Credit, the 

 Humber, and at Bond Head, in the months of May and June, 

 which is earlier than they are generally killed below Quebec. 

 Whether these fish come up the St. Lawrence in the early spring, 

 under the pavement of ice which then rests upon its surface, or 

 whether they have spent the winter in Lake Ontario, is a question 

 which I must leave to naturalists : merely mentioning that there 

 is some foundation for believing that salmon will not only live, 

 but breed, in fresh water without visiting the sea. Mr. Lloyd, in 

 his interesting work on the field sports of the North of Europe, 

 says, " Near Katrineberg, there is a valuable fishery for salmon, 

 ten or twelve thousand of these fish being taken annually. 

 These salmon are bred in a lake, and, in consequence of cataracts, 

 cannot have access to the sea. They are small in size and inferior 

 in flavour," which may also be asserted of salmon taken in the 

 neighbourhood of Toronto. Mr. Scrope, in his work previously 

 quoted, states that Mr George Dormer, of Stone Mills, in the 

 Parish of Bridport, put a female of the salmon tribe, which 

 measured twenty inches in length, and was caught by him at his 

 mill-dam, into a small well, where it remained twelve years, 

 became quite tame and familiar, so as to feed from the hand, and 

 was visited by many persons of respectability from Exeter and its 

 neighbourhood. 



But the fact that salmon are annually taken near the Credit, the 

 Humber and Bond Head is sufficient ground on which to base my 

 argument for the probability that were the tributary streams of 

 the St. Lawrence accessible to them they would ascend and again 

 stock them with a numerous progeny. Even were this found not to 

 be the case, then we have the system of artificial propagation to 

 fall back upon a system which according to the Parliamentary 

 Reports of the Fishery Commissioners has been practised with 

 immense success in different parts of Ireland according to M. 

 Coste, Member of the Institute, and professor of the college of 



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