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from the French Canadians or the Chippeway 

 Indians; that question is more interesting to 

 philologists than to anglers. As an instance of 

 inconsistency, or of the irony of fate, the books 

 give the scientific name of the subgenus as mas- 

 calongus, from the French, and the specific name 

 as masquinongy, from the Ojibwa. 



The mascalonge is common in the St. Law- 

 rence basin and the Great Lakes, more abundant 

 in the lakes of northern Wisconsin, less common 

 in the upper Mississippi River, Chautauqua Lake, 

 New York, and Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, 

 and rare in the upper Ohio River and tribu- 

 taries. It has a long body, somewhat com- 

 pressed, its depth being about one-fifth of its 

 length; the head is large, about a fourth of 

 the length of the body, and flattened, with the 

 lower jaw projecting. It has a terrible array of 

 teeth of assorted sizes. On the edge of each 

 side of the lower jaw are several long, bayonet- 

 shaped teeth, from one-half to an inch apart ; in 

 the front part of the tip of the projecting lower 

 jaw are a few short but sharp teeth, recurved ; in 

 the front part of the upper jaw are three clusters 

 of long, fanglike teeth, standing out amidst the 

 smaller, cardlike teeth; on the edge of the for- 



