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were not acquainted with. We never could get specimens of 

 them because the people take little interest in the matter, but 

 from the descriptions that have been given to me I am confident 

 those are the same fish as that one now upon the wall. And if 

 you can do that in one instance you can do it in another. 

 Therefore I hold that the sea-trout, the salmo fontinalis, and the 

 little speckled-trout, are one and the same thing. 



Mr. Hallock : I have no doubt the gentlemen here will all 

 be very much obliged to Mr. Wilmot for the information which 

 he has given, and I am very glad to know that Mr. Wilmot 

 speaks from facts, on investigation, and that what he has 

 advanced has been based upon experiments ; and while I do 

 not wish at all to appear pedantic in opposition to a gentleman 

 who has made this a study, I would like to state two facts to 

 substantiate my opinion. These sea-trout are caught all down 

 through the St. Lawrence River and down the coast of Nova 

 Scotia, and I do not know that I have ever seen what I call sea- 

 trout caught outside of the maritime provinces. How is it that 

 we do not wait in the waters of Long Island and in the waters 

 of Cape Cod, as they do in Canada, for the coming of these sea- 

 trout ? Another point : I have gone upon the Nova Scotia 

 rivers. Those rivers are all short, generally they do not run 

 more than three or four miles, sometimes they will run fifteen, 

 and then they get to be brooklets. I have been there fishing, 

 and generally at the mouths of brooks that run into those rivers 

 I have fished and caught what are called the salmo fontinalis — 

 similar exactly to those mountain trout — dark mottled salmon, 

 bright crimson, and blue spots upon them distinct enough — but 

 the general hue of the fish was, as Mr. Wilmot expressed it, dark ; 

 but that was early in the season. The Indians would say, " Now 

 this is small fry, we will wait now for awhile and we will see 

 the sea-trout come in, and then we will have some sport." I 



