FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER 



Professor Louis Agassiz, who designated New 

 England a " Zoological Island," on account of the 

 rarity or absence of the characteristically American 

 forms of fresh-water fish, and other zoological 

 peculiarities. 



During the last half of the nineteenth century 

 both species of black bass were indiscriminately 

 planted in the waters of New England. Perhaps 

 the first instance was in 1850, when a few were 

 transplanted from Saratoga Lake into Flax Lake, 

 near East Wareham, Massachusetts, by Mr. Samuel 

 Tisdale, of that place. Some twenty-five ponds in 

 the same county were stocked within the next few 

 years. In 1866, the Cuttyhunk Club introduced 

 black bass into a pond on their grounds ; and in 

 1869, the Fish Commissioners of the State stocked 

 several ponds and Concord River. 



In Connecticut, about 1853, mac k Dass were 

 introduced into Waranung Lake, in Litchfield 

 County, from a lake in Dutchess County, New 

 York. Many other lakes and ponds in the State 

 were stocked previous to 1867. From 1869 to 

 1872, nearly forty ponds were stocked with black 

 bass. 



In New Hampshire, as early as 1864, black bass 

 were planted in Rust's Pond, near Wolfboro. 



In 1867 they were brought into the State from 

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