650 EELS IN WATER PIPES AND THEIR MKiRATlON. — BISHOP. 



Milter. The eels taken out were of usiialW good ordinary size; 

 Init (111 one occasion when we found the Avater coinpletelv sto])])ed 

 at a certniii poiiil, we luid to hreak a pipe there, and found in 

 it a living eel of ahont four inches in diameter (the full size of 

 the pipe) and hetwecn three feet six inches and four feet long. 

 The eels had no i»ossil>l(' watei'wav l>_v which to get into onr 

 reservoir, hnt must have travelled ovei'land for about half a 

 mile from a hi-ook that runs into the l!ig ])ond. Tlie Idg ])on(l, 

 in which eels were plentiful, was a salt-water lake, ha\-ing con- 

 nectichu with the sea hy a channel thi-ough a sand har. These 

 eels on their way had to pass over tli.' railwav emhankmcnt, 

 above meationed. 



The eels in ('ape IJreton do not seem to migrate; they arc 

 seen in al)nndance, both in sunnner and in winter, in all ihc 

 lagoons and estuaries around the coast and in the l>ras d'Or 

 lake. In summer they move about among- the h)ng eel-grass 

 looki'.ig for food, and in winter they lie doTUuint in the mud in 

 the same localities. 



I once in Jnlv was watchino- a laru'e shoal of smelts entering 

 the barrasois at India'a brook, near St. Ann's, V. B., and noticed 

 a number of large eels passing along among them. At fre- 

 quent intervals an eel would he seen to turn quickly and bite a 

 smelt; the latter at once turned on its side and Hoated help- 

 lessly down the channcd followed by the eel, who, 1 ])resume, 

 devoured it at his leisure. 



