238 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



" The rivers and streams in which the salmon 

 have been placed, include all streams of any 

 note extending into South Australia on one 

 side, and into New South Wales on the other. 

 The rivers included in the experiment are the 

 Glenelg, at three places 100 miles apart ; 

 Darlot's Creek, near Portland ; the Hopkins, 

 the Fiery Creek, Lake Burrumbeet, and Emu 

 Creek ; the Gellibrand and its tributaries, the 

 Erskine, St. George, and Cumberland, at 

 Loutitt Bay; the Aire, Barrum, Ford, and 

 Parker, at Cape Otway; the Barwon, at 

 Winchelsea and Birregurra ; the Werribee, 

 the Saltwater river, the Yarra, the Latrobe, 

 the Macalister, the Avon, the Mitchell, the 

 Nicholson, the Tambo, and the Snowy rivers." 



It is important to know that the salmon 

 have been placed in streams that afford a 

 good promise of successful results. The Cape 

 Otway streams are all highly spoken of, by 

 those who know them, as being most suitable. 

 Tbe Aire river, about six miles west of Cape 

 Otway, has a wide estuary, into which flow 

 three tributaries from a tract of country of a 

 semi-alpine character. There are extensive 

 forests of the beautiful evergreen beech (Fagus 



