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be with a canoe, twelve miles. There is a natural fall, an 

 impassable barrier. He will find at the foot of that fall little 

 speckled-trout an inch or two inches long, and he will find 

 them running from that up to three and four pounds in weight ; 

 and if he goes about three yards below this deep pool, he will 

 some morning see these sea-trout — the bright, brilliant ones — 

 coming up, and he will catch them very readily. Then go up 

 to the deep pool under the rock, and he will catch all these 

 kinds, one with red fins, another with black ; and if he stays 

 there as late as October or November, all these bright ones will 

 become black-sided and red-finned. They cannot get out. 

 They all come up from the sea. The little ones lie off of 

 the little streams, but in their migration they all congregate in 

 this stream, and when October comes they drop down to the 

 rapids below to lay their eggs. 



Mr. Hallock : I would like to say, if I have formed wrong 

 conclusions, it has been not from lack of observation and 

 opportunity, for I have fished every part of the waters that Mr. 

 Roosevelt speaks of and that Mr. Wilmot speaks of in the 

 lower Provinces, Lake Superior, etc. I am quite aware that the 

 color of trout changes with the water, that swampy water 

 produces dark color, and vice versa. 



Mr. Wilmot : If my friend, Mr. Hallock, could give me any 

 data for the foundation of his arguments which would in any 

 way upset the views which I entertain, of course I should 

 gladly receive them, because my object is to seek information ; 

 but, from the experience I have have had in regard to this 

 matter, it must be conclusive that they are one and the same 

 thing, and I am corroborated by our esteemed President. 



Mr. Evarts : This is really a revival of the old question that 

 was settled back ten, twelve, thirteen, or fourteen, years ago. A 

 number of the fishermen that used to go up into the waters of 



