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appear different from the other, although I must say that when 

 they came to me fresh, I could scarcely determine the difference 

 between those river-fish, which are caught only at certain 

 seasons, and those yonder, which are the brook-trout which have 

 prone down into the salt water, and have been taken in salt 

 water. Now in regard to my opinion : those who are Canadians 

 know that the advent of the sea-trout is looked for by fishermen 

 with some interest ; that in the middle of June the fish come up 

 the rivers where we are fishing for the ordinary brook -trout — 

 where we take salmon sometimes — and that they are so different 

 in their appearance and in their shape and quality that they are 

 very much preferred by the fishermen as commercial fish. 

 When in drawing the seines the other fish are taken with these, 

 those fish are thrown out as insipid and valueless for market, 

 while these fish are carefully preserved and sent away by 

 hundreds of barrels and salted. I maintain, from the fact that 

 in this Nouvelle River, where these fish run — they are large, 

 uniformly large — that it would indicate that they are a species 

 peculiar to that river, precisely as there are certain salmon 

 peculiar to certain rivers, as salmon-men all know, from the fact 

 of their running occupying a period of only six weeks, after 

 which they would disappear ; and that would serve to indicate a 

 dissimilarity of habits between that and the other fish. I do not 

 care much for the color. There are a great many children of 

 one family that have a different shade in their color. Another 

 point: I am very rambling, Mr. President, and not much given 

 to consecutiveness. At the mouth of the Saguenay River, early 

 in the season of these fish, in June, you will find on the bar 

 outside, five miles from the shore, the fishermen there expect 

 to find the fish then, and subsequently they work themselves up 

 ten or fifteen miles, where there is another bar, and they are 

 found there. Having been caught awhile, they disappear, 



