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"Among numerous records of their introduction, in 

 very few instances discriminating properly between the 

 two species, we give the following: In 1850, twenty -seven 

 live Bass were brought by Mr. Samuel Tisdale, of East 

 Wareham, Mass., from Saratoga Lake and put into Flax 

 Lake, near his home. In the years 1851 and 1852, others 

 were brought to the number of two hundred and reared 

 in ponds in the vicinity. The matter was kept quiet and 

 fishing discouraged for five years, when the fish were found 

 to have increased very rapidly. Some twenty-five ponds 

 were stocked in the same county after Mr. Tisdale had 

 initiated the experiment. Afterward, Black Bass fi'om 

 Mr. Tisdale's ponds were supplied to a lake in Xew 

 Hampshire in 18(37, and to waters in Connecticut and 

 Massachusetts. In 18G6 the Cuttyhunk Club, of Massa- 

 chusetts introduced Black Bass into a pond in their grounds. 

 In the year 18G9 the Commissioners of the State, together 

 with private parties, stocked several ponds and the Concord 

 River with Black Bass, and in the following year other 

 waters were stocked. 



"In Connecticut, in the winter of 1852-53, the Black 

 Bass was introduced into Waraniang Lake, in Litchfield 

 County. They were brought from a small lake in Dutchess 

 County, New York. A few years later they were said to 

 have increased greatly. Another lake in the same county 

 was stocked not long afterward. 



"Salstonstall Lake, near New Haven; East Hampton 

 Pond, in Chatham; Winsted Pond, in Winchester, and 

 many ponds and lakes of the State, particularly in the 

 northwest portion, were stocked with the Black Bass 

 previous to the year 1867. 



" In the years 18G9, 1870, 1871, and 1872, thirty-seven 



