234 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



being a rapid mountain stream, subject to 

 heavy floods, which are said to rise 60 feet 

 in a night. There is an island of boulders 

 and water-worn pebbles at its junction with 

 the Buchan, of some 30 acres, completely de- 

 nuded of soil by the strength of the current. 

 Not liking to put the fish in the muddy water, 

 I carried them to the junction, and wading 

 through the Buchan, I liberated them some 

 distance below the junction, but in the clear 

 water of the Buchan, which did not inter- 

 mingle for a considerable distance with the 

 muddy waters of the Snowy river — just as 

 is seen at the confluence of the Rhone and 

 the Arve, near Geneva, where the blue waters 

 of the lake unite, but do not mingle with, the 

 muddy waters brought down by the melted 

 snows from Chamounix. I got rather chaffed 

 for wading into the water unnecessarily, but 

 wet clothes did not seem of much consequence 

 at the moment, and the strong heat of the 

 weather soon dried them. 



" Mr. Howitt went to make some geological 

 examinations of the pebble and boulder drift, 

 which contained specimens of many varieties 

 of rocks, all rounded and water- worn; even 



