62 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



beds is certainly great, but not farther, I 

 believe, than the salmon go in ascending 

 some of the great American rivers. 



In the report of Professor Spencer Baird, 

 the United States Commissioner of Fish and 

 Fisheries, for the year 1875, it is stated that, 

 in the tributaries of the Columbia river, 

 " 1800 miles from its mouth, the salt-water 

 salmon come in myriads to spawn. . . . 

 The large king salmon or chowichee, and the 

 red salmon, hoikoh, are according to Mr. Dall, 

 taken as far up the Yukon river as Port Yukon, 

 1400 miles from the sea. . . . From these 

 facts we may infer that the instinct of location 

 is probably sufficient to attract a colony of 

 fishes as far inland as the head waters of 

 the longest river, whenever their home has 

 been once established there. . . . The vigor- 

 ous strength and the energy exhibited by the 

 Californian salmon during its migrations up 

 the Sacramento and Columbia rivers, afford 

 the evidence that its capacity for a long 

 migration from the sea to its spawning 

 grounds is unsurpassed by any species of 

 fish known. Wherever the Californian sal- 

 mon, in the process of artificial propagation, 



