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AUSTRALIAN SALMON. 
the ravine we have noticed — and that, subsequently, the 
sides of the hills became more broken, and valleys, or gullies, 
more properly speaking, very numerous. Captain Barker 
estimated the height of Mount Lofty above the sea at 2,400 
feet, and the distance of its summit from the coast at eleven 
miles. Mr. Kent says they were surprised at the size 
of the trees on the immediate brow of it; they mea- 
sured one and found it to be 43 feet in girth. Indeed, he 
adds, vegetation did not appear to have suffered either from 
its elevated position, or from any prevailing wind. Euca- 
lypti were the general timber on the ranges ; one species of 
which, resembling strongly the black butted-gum, was re- 
markable for a scent peculiar to its bark. 
The party rejoined the soldiers on the 21st, and enjoyed 
the supply of fish which they had provided for them. The 
soldiers had amused themselves by fishing during Captain 
Barker’s absence, and had been abundantly successful. 
Among others they had taken a kind of salmon, which, though 
inferior in size, resembled in shape, in taste, and in the colour 
of its flesh, the salmon of Europe. I fancied that a fish which 
I observed with extremely glittering scales, in the mouth of a 
seal, when myself on the coast, must have been of this kind ; 
and I have no doubt that the lake is periodically visited by 
salmon, and that these fish retain their habits of enteringfresh 
water at particular seasons, also in the southern hemisphere. 
Immediately behind Cape Jervis, there is a small bay, 
in which according to the information of the sealers who 
frequent Kangaroo Island, there is good and safe anchor- 
