B8 THE ACCLIMATISATION 



cookery to testify that that river, which 

 now holds no salmon, then abounded with 

 them. Indeed, these French troglodytes 

 were judges of good fare, for they ate na 

 other fish but salmon. Thus the northern 

 hemisphere has been the habitat of the 

 family throughout the many alterations of 

 level and changes of watershed which have 

 taken place in tertiary times ; but the de- 

 posits of the southern knew not their bones, 

 nor the rivers their living presence until 

 now, and it was altogether a subject for 

 speculation whether they would find there 

 suitable conditions of Ufe. 



SALMON-TROUT BREEDING IN CAPTIVITY. 



Mr. Youl did not lose much time, and by 

 the 20th January, 1866, the Lincolnshire 

 sailed from London with a consignment of 

 87,000 salmon, 15,000 salmon - trout, and 

 600 brown trout ova, arriving in Melbourne 

 on the 30th April, whence they were at 

 once .sent on to Tasmania, and placed in 

 the breeding ponds on the 5th May, The 



