280 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



TABi.ii Yll.— Observations on temperature of nmier in the west branch of the Little Andros- 

 coggin River, at Norway, Me., made by A. B. Crockett. 



[The place where the observations were mafle was about one-eiglitb of a luilo from the falls in water 

 Pisrlit to ten feet deep, being the deepest to bo found. The bottom temperature was obtained by sinking 

 a can and raising it by a lino attached, as in the other cases. This stream drains Pennesseewassee 

 l.ake, a body of water of about 200 acres in area, deep and pure, and the place of observation was some 

 distance below the outlet, but before reaching that point the water passed throu<Th numerous mill- 

 wheels.J 



Table Y III.— -Statement of salmon bought alive at Biiclcsport in 1872. 



saliuon. Tlie nuniber'^of weirs controlled by each person varied largely, "jt A.wrhaTiiin-'tliesrinion 

 troni only two, J. "\V. from four or five times as many. J. A. W.'s salmon were brought only from the 

 northern part ot Orplian Island, a distance of less than half a mile ; A.'s from three mile.s down the 

 river; J. W.'s from points still farther down, distant about four miles; still farther about live miles 

 from Bucksport, aiound tlic soutli end of Orphan Island, were the weirs that fiunishedA. H. W 's salm- 

 on. The number brought each time generally included the catch of all the tides that had' intervened 

 since the last delivery recorded— commonly two tides, sometimes one, sometimes three or more J 



