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soon afterwards, in a similar way, but the water was not 

 changed during the journey^ though ice was used freely. 

 They all refiched their destination safely, after a journey 

 of about thirty hours. Mem. : It is much safer to keep 

 the fish in water that you are acquainted with than to use 

 that with which you are not acquainted. 



Q. In the spring of 1869 I had three lots of Lake Cham- 

 plain and Missisquoi River fish transported to Charlestown, 

 N. H., consisting of Black Bass {Grystes fasciatus) ; 

 Glass-eyed Pike {^Lncioperca) ; Red-fin Mullets [Catosto- 

 nius) ; White-tailed Mullets {Catostontus) ; Lake Cham- 

 plain Shad, Whitefish {Coregonus) ; Suckers {Catosto- 

 niits) • Mascalonge {Esox; gill-covers bare) ; Pickerel 

 (Esox, gill-covers sealed) ; Hornpouts, Bull-heads {Pi- 

 melodiis) ; Yellow Perch {Perca Jlavescens) ; Sheep's 

 Head, Drumfish {Amblodon). Their journey was a long 

 and severe one. They were first taken in a seine, and 

 confined in a pound a day or two, then transferred to a 

 hundred-gallon wooden tank, and conveyed ten miles in a 

 row-boat to the village of Swanton,Vt., thence to the railroad 

 station by wagon, thence to St. Albans by rail, where they 

 waited several hours for the connecting train. They then 

 travelled 152 miles by rail to Charlestown, where they 

 were received in a wagon and driven to the Ponds. Ice 

 was used plentifully on the way, probably too much, they 

 being warm-water fish, and the water was more or less 

 aerated. The result was very different with different fish. 

 There were about forty fish in the tank each time, all full 

 grown, and averaging two pounds apiece. All the shad 

 (whitefish) died almost immediately, most of the sheep's- 

 heads died early also, and almost all the glass-eyed pike. 

 The mullets, perch, suckers, hornpouts, and pickerel lived. 

 Most of the black bass lived. The survivors are still at 

 the Cold Spring Trout Ponds, and are doing well. Mem. : 

 Ice should be used cautiously with warm-water fish. The 



