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then we would take the dark ones that had evidently not gone 

 to the sea at all. We would see in one day a tremendous school 

 of fish come up in one of those pools, a school larger than 

 would cross this entire room, solid, and they would pass around 

 this pool making up their minds whether they would go up or 

 not. We would see them pass in front of our camp, go up, go 

 around, go back, go up. I would cast over them once in a while 

 and raise one ; and they would stay a day or two, and they would 

 make up their minds to go up, and they were gone. Another 

 thing confirms Mr. Wilmot's views concerning their visiting the 

 larger lakes. I do not know whether he has investigated the 

 upper part of Canada, the western part of Canada adjoining 

 Lake Superior. I have spent some time there ; I took in Lake 

 Superior and Detroit, and there were some sea-trout ; you could 

 lav them alongside of one another — a trout that had never seen 

 salt water — a magnificent, great sea-trout, and as brilliant as 

 anvthing you ever saw, and as brilliant as any ever taken in the 

 St. Lawrence River. We would take them right in the great 

 lake where you could not see across, precisely the same thing as 

 I have taken in the Nouvelle River and in the Saginaw and St. 

 Lawrence. I followed those up in the same way. There was 

 more rapid change of color there because the water is rather 

 dark, flowing from swamps, etc. I caught trout there so dark 

 that they were almost black. You look at them and at first you 

 would say, " That never can be a trout ; it is a black fish of some 

 kind." I have taken below Carman's Point sea-trout that were 

 exceedingly brilliant, and more so than anywhere else on Long 

 Island, and I have observed the same thing in relation to these 

 trout. 



Mr. Wilmot : When my friend Hallock visits our Provinces, 

 I hope he will go up the Dartmouth River, which is leased by a 

 gentleman living in Boston. All the distance he can go up will 



