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in their spawning time, while returning home from 

 a ramble among the heaths and hills of Chilmark 

 and Tisbury, that crossing the principal brook of 

 the island, our attention was attracted towards the 

 agitated state of the w aters, and never do we recol- 

 lect so fully to have realized the expression of its be- 

 ing "alive with fish," as on this occasion. As we 

 carelessly descended the course of the brook, they 

 were constantly rushing before us, but on a closer 

 and more careful inspection, they might be discern- 

 ed lying dormant in the gravelly shallows with their 

 back fins out of water, watching their spawn, occa- 

 sionally darting out, as danger in the shape ofsome 

 unwelcome intruder approached the object of their 

 care. 



Departing once more from the intention of con- 

 fining these remarks to the trout of Massachusetts 

 alone, it may be here stated that w^ith the excep- 

 tion of the Vineyard alone, there is no place with- 

 in our knowledge where they appeared to be so 

 numerous as in the river at Dennysville, in the 

 state of Maine. They were in all respects like 

 those we have been describing. They were 

 found in all parts of the river, but more par- 

 ticularly in certain spots where a cold brook en- 

 tered and mingled with its waters, called trout- 

 holes ; in such places they were congregated in im- 

 mense numbers. 



