50 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



early in September ; lower still at Tehama, 

 the season is October and November. In 

 some of the streams which fall into the sea 

 north of the Sacramento, such as the Eel 

 river and the Kussian river, the spawning 

 takes place in winter, or in December, 

 January, and February. 



" Not long since, all the tributaries of the 

 Sacramento were visited every year by pro- 

 digious numbers of salmon, which came there 

 to spawn. The Pitt or Upper Sacramento, 

 the American, the Feather, and the Little 

 Sacramento had magnificent spawning beds ; 

 but since the extension of mining, the washing 

 of minerals has nearly destroyed the spawning 

 grounds of the American and Feather rivers. 



" The Pitt and the Little Sacramento, with 

 their tributaries, have alone escaped this in- 

 jurious effect of the gold- workings, and keep 

 all their primitive wealth of fish-life. The 

 spawning grounds of the McCloud river, an 

 affluent of the Pitt, which has its source at 

 Mount Shasta, are of considerable extent. It 

 is to the banks of this river, in the midst of 

 Indian tribes ' of a doubtful sympathy for the 

 pale faces,' that Dr. Livingston Stone goes 



