214 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



banks of the stream is beautiful to look at, 

 but the water in the river itself is much 

 warmer than the waters of the Parker or the 

 Burrum Burrum. . . . Altogether, I believe 

 that the experiment to acclimatize the salmon 

 in these rivers will prove to be a success." 



The following appeared in the Argus of 

 January 19, 1878, and is an account of my 

 trip to Gippsland with the salmon fry in- 

 tended for distribution in the rivers flowing 

 from the Great Dividing Bange known as the 

 Australian Alps, some of which run direct to 

 the sea, and others into the great lakes which 

 receive many of the G-ippsland streams, and 

 have their embouchure by the Beeves river, 

 through a shifting sand-bar, into the Pacific 

 Ocean : — 



"I had originally intended to have taken the 

 fish intended for Gippsland, and more espe- 

 cially those for the Snowy river, by sea, and 

 had postponed making any arrangements for 

 stocking these rivers, until the return of the 

 Government steamer Victoria from her cruise, 

 which I understood was to terminate about 

 Christmas, 1877. An application made by the 

 Zoological and Acclimatization Society to the 



