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" From the experience which 1 have now had, however, I would ad- 

 vise a change with some of the fish, which would make the temperature 



as follows: 



Degrees Fahrenheit. 



" Cat-fish 50 



" Fresh-water eels ~ 50 



" Bull-heads 48 



" Glass-eyed perch 48 



" Yellow perch 45 to 48 



" Black bass 42 to 45 



"Salt-water eels 42 to 45 



" Tautogs ~ 40 



" Trout 36 to 38 



" Lobsters 34 to 36 



"Oysters « 34 to 36 



" Mr. Myron Green rejoined us with the shad the next morning, Sat- 

 urday, June 7th, and at 10.15 a. m. the same day, after having taken on 

 three tons of ice and three tons of Lake Michigan water, we left Chi- 

 cago for Omaha, via the Chicago and Northwestern Eailroad. 



" We took on water again at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and arrived at 

 Omaha at 11 o'clock on the morning of Sunday, June 8th. Through 

 the courtesy of Mr. C. B. Havens, the train-dispatcher of the Union Pa- 

 cific Eailroad, who detailed an engine to take our car Jto the ice-house 

 at the Union Pacific shops, we were enabled to take on a ton and 

 a half of ice, and about 1 o'clock we started westward again. We 

 were now on our sixth day out, and everything was promising well. 

 All the dead eels had been removed, and we had 20,000 or 30,000 left. 

 The mortality of the lobsters was on the decrease, and we still had 

 over forty alive and in good condition. All the other fish were in 

 splendid order. We had ice and water enough on board to take us, 

 if necessary, to the Sierra Nevada — certainly with what supplies we 

 could get in the Wahsatch Mountains, where the water is good. The 

 circumstance of the fish having lived so well up to this time gave us a 

 good deal of confidence, and we were encouraged- to hope that they 

 would continue to do well to the end of their journey. 



"After leaving Omaha, we stowed away as well as we could the im- 

 mense amount of ice we had on the car; and, having regulated the tem- 

 perature of all the tanks, and aerated the water all round, we made our 

 tea and were sitting down to diuner, when suddenly there came a terri- 

 ble crash, and tanks, ice, and everything in the car seemed to strike us 

 in every direction. We were, every one of us, at once wedged in by the 

 heavy weights upon us, so that we could not move or stir. A moment after 

 the car began to fill rapidly with water, the heavy weights upon us be- 

 gan to loosen, and, in some unaccountable way, we were washed out into 

 the river. Swimming around our car, we climbed up on one end of it, 

 which was still out of water, and looked around to see where we were. 



