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THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TROUT 

 FAMILY. 



BY W. D. TOM LIN, DULUTH, MINX. 



It has become accepted as fact, that no member of 

 the Salvehnus, Namaycush, or Iridea family, have their 

 habitat in what is known as the Mississippi water shed, 



x'\ll the cold spring streams of the St. Lawrence 

 connections, clear up to the Canadian boundry line, 

 are expected to contain trout, and have at some time 

 been considered good trout streams ; while the Namay- 

 cush family are found in abundance in the lakes scatter- 

 ed along the streams connecting with the aforesaid St. 

 Lawrence. This subject has been much debated be- 

 cause gentlemen have said : " such a thing could not 

 exist ! " but the proof of the fact is beyond all dis- 

 pute ; the Namaycush, or Lake trout, are found in the 

 feeders of the Mississippi, and are caught weighing from 

 two to thirty pounds each. 



They are a beautiful and considerable gamy fish, 

 when caught below five pounds, and will take a spoon 

 hook even to the hio-hest weioht known. 



Up beyond Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Min- 

 nesota, and running almost close to the Rainy Lake 

 water shed, there is a large lake named Pokegama — 

 (pronounced Po-keg-ama, the o sounded softly) — about 

 fifteen miles long and three to five miles wide, a deep 



