180 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



which reached Corangamite alive, and seemed 

 to enjoy being liberated in their new home. 

 I then placed a further sum at Mr. Connor's 

 disposal, to enable him to place a larger 

 number and a greater variety of fish in the 

 lake. Six different trips were made ; and 

 although many died on the way, a large 

 number of fish of a size that indicated the 

 prospect of their soon spawning, were placed 

 in the lake. Mr. Connor wrote to say that he 

 wished to bear the cost of the first trip ; but, 

 as he had given his personal care to the 

 experiment all through in the most generous 

 way, I did not think that he should bear any 

 part of the actual outlay. The first lot was 

 placed in the lake on the 3rd of June, 1876, 

 and the last lot on the 25th of June, 1878. 

 The result of this most interesting experiment 

 is not yet known, as, in a lake twenty miles in 

 length, a few fish are not easily found again. 

 There is abundance of food, however, in its 

 waters, including a small shrimp and a kind 

 of whitebait (G-alaxias attenuatus), which is 

 found in myriads coming up to spawn in its 

 tributaries ; and as the water of the lake has 

 been proved by chemical analysis to differ 



