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It itj easily distinguishable by its large scales, firm appearance, and closely 

 resembles the carp of Europe. Tt and the rock Sucker are the two best 

 fish of the genus for eating. 



The Roach Dace {Semoiilus Bidlaris) is the fish erroneously called 

 chub ; it is abundant in the rapids of all our rivers where it affords good 

 S]:)orfc, taking equally well a worm, a fly, or a grasshopper. Its average 

 full size is from 1 to l|^ Ibs.in weight. TheRedfinorRoughhead (^Minnilus 

 CormUus), frequents deep holes or pot-holes of rapid streams associated 

 with brook trout. It has a leathery mouth, and is abundant in the 

 Gatineau, Blanche, and all tributaries of large rivers. It is plentiful in 

 the pools of the Chelsea trout, stream where the water is still and muddy 

 bottomed, and is very destructive to the ova of trout. Numerous 

 tubercles on its head give it the appearance of being covered with 

 minute prickles. It is sometimes called horny dace or horned chub. 

 The black nosed dsiCe{Rhinicth2/s Atronasus) known generally as the brook 

 or striped minnow is abundant. This fish sometimes has a rich orange 

 colouring on its belly, and in some specimens this is so sharply marked 

 as to have given rise to the idea of the existence of a different species to 

 which the name of red bellied mimww (Chrosomus Eri/throgaster)\\as been 

 given. In an Ottawa paper of 1866 is an article entitled "Notes on the 

 lakes and lake fishes in the vicinity of Ottawa, by a member of the 

 Isaac Walton Club," the writer of which, I fancy, was the late Dr. Van- 

 Cortland. As the first part treats of this fish, I quote it here' : — "In 

 the Village of Hull, immediately behind the drying grounds of Eddy's 

 pail factory, deep seated in a rocky crater, there is a sheet of water which 

 although only about two acres in extent has acquired par excellena the 

 name of Minncw Lake. Until lately, and since the adjacent ground has 

 been built upon and so disfigured by those tinder boxes which con-i 

 stitute Wright's Town, it was a most beautiful and inviting object to 

 look down upon from the surrounding cliffs, which on the eastern side 

 rise perpendicularly to a considerable- height, the highest portion of the 

 rock being some 70 feet above the water. During the spring freshets 

 an imperfect communication is effected by a sluggish outlet with 

 Brigham's Creek which it taps at the natural cave just behind the stone 

 house at the olddistillery causeway, but which in the summer season being 

 nearly dried up, answers another and a very different purpose, namely, 



