MORE ABOUT EELS 



of young eels up the Thames at Kingston, in the 

 year 1832, commenced on the thirtieth of April 

 and lasted till the fourth of May. Some notion 

 may be formed of the quantity of young eels that 

 pass up the river, from the circumstance that it 

 was calculated by two observers that from sixteen 

 to eighteen hundred passed a given point in the 

 space of one minute." Another writer says : 

 " Such a desire do the young eels appear to have 

 to go up the stream, that their course is not easily 

 stopped. I have seen a flood-gate six or seven 

 feet in height, in parts covered by them, many 

 succeeding in passing over this perpendicular bar- 

 rier by availing themselves of the trickling water 

 which escaped through crevices of the wood- 

 work." 



The eel is exceedingly prolific. The esteem in 

 which he is held in America is only beginning to 

 keep step with his phenomenal ability to multiply 

 himself. 



