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salmon hue, depending, no doubt, upon their 

 food. If any, however, deserve the name of sal- 

 mon-trout, it should be those only which resemble 

 the salmon in the color of the flesh, since in that 

 particular the salmon never vary, which the trout 

 often do* 



Though their average size and weight is much 

 the same, but falling short of that w T hich is usually 

 ascribed to them ; still there is in every water some 

 peculiarity by which the fish may be distinguish- 

 ed, some being darker, some of a more shining 

 hue, and some of a fuller form. And there are 

 also exceptions as to the fact of the uniformity of 

 their size 5 for they are known, in one stream to be 

 of a very minute description, not longer than min- 

 nows, yet perfectly formed and beautiful fish, 

 while in another stream the average is large, and 

 small fish seldom seen. 



Two pounds may be considered large, yet they 

 sometimes attain the weight of three. To give, 

 however, a better idea of the usual size, we should 

 say, that after a day's fishing, and having return- 

 ed to the water such as were too small to keep, 

 the balance would generally compare to the stand- 

 ard of herrings, a fish well known for their uniform- 

 ity in this particular. 



But here it may be remarked, that it is this 

 very variation in size, so peculiar to the trout, 



