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Where the odd figures occur, I would explain that 

 there was no pretense to actual count, but from the meas- 

 ured number of eggs there was an actual count of the 

 losses of eggs and fry, my men being instructed to keep such 

 a record, and the loss being deducted, left odd numbers 

 which were always added in the last shipment ; except in 

 cases of loss in transportation, when they are deducted from 

 that particular shipment. 



The streams in which the fry were placed are good' trout 

 streams, but there exists great confusion as to their names. 

 For instance, while on this investigation I asl<ed Nate Ben- 

 nett, a well known Adirondack guide, where "Roaring brook" 

 was, and he said that it was only another name for " Thir- 

 teenth brook." This happened at the North River Plotel, and 

 the latter brook empties into the Hudson about one hundred 

 yards above, but others said that "Roaring brook" was a 

 tributary of North creek. As it will be found that a brook 

 by this name was stocked in four different years, I cannot 

 say which one received the two plantings of 1883, made by 

 O. B. Hewitt; nor in 1884, by F. A. Walters, because the 

 men are no longer in my employ and I do not know their ad- 

 dresses. The plantings in " Roaring brook," made in 1886, 

 by C. H. Walters, and in 1888, by O. V. Rogers, were in the 

 stream emptying into North creek. Depending as we must, 

 on the natives for the nomenclature of these little mountain 

 streams, we find the names are much mixed, and the maps do 

 not name these little brooks. My foreman, C, H. Walters, 

 tells me that Eldridge brook, stocked by him in 1886, is the 

 stream also known as " Balm of Gilead," and that it had two 

 plantings in that year in consequence of its double name. I 

 have now a better knowledge of the smaller brooks, and will 

 try to avoid confusion of this kind in the future. The follow- 

 ing is a list of the brooks, with the number of salmon placed 

 in them : — 



Carr's brook, also called " Deleby brook," comes into the 

 Hudson from the east, a mile or two above North Creek, 



