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taries, 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 Eiver, theTarra, the Latrobe, the Macalister, 
the Avon, the Mitchell, the Nichol&on, the Tambo, and the 
Snowy Bivers. 
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. The 
Aire Eiver 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 Cunning- 
liami), many of the trees being splendid specimens from 
four to five feet in diameter. There are many beautiful 
spots in these ranges near the base of Mount Sabine, 
waterfalls and rapids, with fern trees fifty feet in height. 
Near Loutitt Bay there are clear, cool streams, with 
pebbly bottoms coming direct out of high ranges. Mr. 
Edward Hayes, who carried some of the salmon fry on 
pack horses over almost inaccessible country and liberated 
them successfully, speaks highly in praise of these streams 
as being most suitable for salmon. 
The Gippsland rivers are splendid streams, which never 
fail in the driest seasons. The Avon is described by 
Mr. Bolden as one of the best streams flowing into the 
Lakes. Its tributaries are most suitable for fish-spawning, 
being extremely clear, with a rocky and pebbly bottom. 
The Mitchell, and its principal tributaries, the Dargo, 
Wentworth, Wonnongatta, and Morocco, take their rise 
from the great dividing range, and receive the drainage from 
the melting snows of a watershed having a very large area. 
Mining operations having now all but ceased on these 
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