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Salar in Lake Ontario, near Kingston, and many persons 

 in Toronto know that they are taken annually at the mouths 

 of the Credit, the Humber and atBond Head, in the months 

 of May and June, which is earlier than they are generally 

 killed below Quebec. "Whether these fish come up the 

 St. Lawrence in the early spring, under the pavement of 

 ice which then rests upon its surface, or whether they have 

 spent the winter in Lake Ontario, is a question which I 

 must leave to naturalists ; merely mentioning that there is 

 some foundation for believing that salmon will not only live, 

 but breed, in fresh water, without visiting the sea. Mr. 

 Lloyd, in his interesting work on the field sports of the 

 North of Europe, says : " Near Katrineberg, there is a va- 

 luable fishery for salmon, ten or twelve thousands of these 

 fish being taken annually. These salmon are bred in a 

 lake, and, in consequence of cataracts, cannot have access 

 to the sea. They are small in size atid inferior in flavor," 

 which may also be asserted of salmon taken in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Toronto. Mr. Sorope, in his work previously 

 quoted, states that Mr. George Dorm^er, of Stone Mills, in 

 the Parish of Bridport, put a female of the salmon tribe, 

 which measured twenty inches in length, and was caught 

 by him at his mill-dam, into a small well, where it remain- 

 ed twelve years, became quite tame and familiar, so as to 

 feed from the hand, and was visited by many persons of 

 respectability from Exeter and its neighborhood. 



But the fact that salmon are annually taken near the 

 Credit, the Humber and Bond Head is suflScient ground 

 on which to base my argument for the probability that, 

 were the tributary streams of the St. Lawrence accessible 

 to them they would ascend and again stock them with a 



