THE SALMON. 
Salmo Salar. 
Tas glorious fellow, who is admitted on all hands to 
be the very king of fishes, as regards personal beauty, 
strength, agility, and speed, as regards excellence upon 
the table, and as regards the sport he gives to the vigor- 
ous and skillful angler, is in this month in his prime of 
health, vigor, and perfection, in all those waters of the 
United States and British Provinces, wherein he still 
exists. Within the limits of the former, on the Eastern 
or Atlantic side of the continent, those waters are 
confined to a few of the noble and limpid rivers in the 
State of Maine from the Kennebec, eastward, and to one 
or two large streams of Northern New York emptying 
into the St. Lawrence. In the British Provinces of New 
Brunswick and Canada East, all the waters, whether 
emptying into the Bay of Fundy or the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, are literally alive with this noble predatory 
fish, to such an extent that an accomplished fly-fisher, 
temporarily resident in the first-named province, “ offer- 
ed in 1850 to back himself, for any reasonable amount 
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