10 FISHES OF THE CONNECTICUT LAKES. 
termined whether a reputed scarcity of game fishes was real or only 
apparent. If real, it is impossible to say just what conditions are 
responsible for it. 
There is plenty of deep cool water, and in the small fishes an 
abundant food supply. During the stay here, however, there was a 
remarkable scarcity of insects, which might be due to either of two 
causes, the cold season, which perhaps is not always present, or the 
fresh westerly winds that blew nearly every day almost with 
the regularity of trade winds. Calms were very infrequent. Nearly 
every evening after sunset in pleasant weather there was a lght 
easterly breeze, which continued until morning. Even if the morning 
was calm, before noon the cool westerly wind would spring up. 
Mud Pond and Brook.—Mud Pond is hardly worthy of notice ex- 
cept that it 1s the source of Mud Pond Brook, and that, notwithstand- 
ing its peculiarly unfavorable character, it contains trout. 
The pond is not over 5 or 6 acres in extent and is surrounded by 
boggy shores in which cranberries, callas, potentilla, pitcherplant, and 
sweet gale and other shrubs grow. The bottom of the pond consists 
of oozelike mud, the depth of which could not be found with a 4-foot 
oar. The water at the time of our visit, July 21, was not much over 
1 foot deep. The yellow water lily abounds and there is some pond 
weed. In places the stout roots of the pond lily were exposed in 
masses almost sufficient to bear one’s weight. It is said that trout 
are caught in this pond in the spring. We caught mud chub and 
chub-minnows. Ina small spring brook there were many trout from 
3 to 7 or 8 inches long. They were very shy, and after a few had 
been caught no more would bite. The temperature in this brook, 
which had its source in a nearby springy or boggy place, was 52° F.; 
at its mouth it was 54° F.; in the pond it was 72° F. 
The outlet near the pond was shallow, and even dry in places, or 
the water ran underground. It was so overgrown with bushes that it 
could not be. explored far from the pond. Where the main road 
crosses it, about half a mile from First Lake, it is a narrow brook 
but 2 or 3 feet wide, with here and there comparatively deep pools. 
In the brook are many small trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) up to 8 or 9 
inches long, and brown trout (Salmo fario) up to 9 inches long. The 
Jatter are chiefly in the lower half mile of the brook, 
Most of the chub-minnows, suckers, and blobs caught in this brook 
were found near First Lake. 
Round Pond.—lIt is probably 3 or 4 miles by the connecting brook 
from Round Pond to First Lake. The pond has an area of about 20 
acres, being about one-fifth of a mile in diameter and approximately 
round, or about as round as “ round ponds” usually are. It is nearly 
surrounded by hills, high enough, perhaps, to be designated by the 
name of mountains, 
