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afterwards you will have trout weighing two or three pounds 

 in that pond. It is because there is a larger body of water, and 

 a larger amount of food than in the little stream of water. It 

 is a matter of food altogether that produces the difference in 

 size, and it is a matter of temperature of water to a great extent 

 that gives the fish the variety of hues that we have present at 

 certain seasons of the year. Therefore I feel it my duty — 

 although, perhaps, my views do not coincide with my esteemed 

 friend, Mr. Hallock, but I always feel it my duty to express my 

 opinion or belief quite independent of whether it affects others 

 or not — I do candidly believe, and I think the gentlemen of 

 this Association almost generally indorse this opinion, that I 

 express in regard to the sea-trout. I go so far as to believe that 

 all the different kinds of salmon-trout — those that we catch in 

 our great inland seas, salmon-trout weighing fifty, sixty, or 

 seventy pounds, sometimes caught in Lake Huron and Lake 

 Superior — were originally the salmon of the sea, and by some 

 volcanic eruption and upheaval of the earth they have been at 

 some very remote date thrown up by these eruptions into some 

 of the lakes that were formed by the eruption inland, where 

 they could not get out again, and they became transformed, after 

 many years, to the different fishes that we now have frequenting 

 these lakes. We know them all to be of the salmonoid family. 

 And so it is, you can change any of the salmonoid family at 

 your pleasure, if you will only devote sufficient time to carry 

 out the experiment. Now that fish yonder : its father or 

 grandfather or great-grandfather came from the sea, but I am 

 confident that he never went to the sea. We had in Lake 

 Huron, and a portion of the Georgian Bay, salmon which were 

 planted there, the eggs of which were hatched in my establish- 

 ment, and put into the rivers running into Lake Huron. Some 

 fish have been caught there the last year which the fishermen 



