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number of the largest weighed about a pound and 

 a half, but none over. They were nearly all tak- 

 en with the fly, and most of them with three or 

 four varieties of those standard flies already men- 

 tioned, namely, the red and yellow palmer or 

 hackle, the march brown, and grouse hackle. 

 The time on the whole was favorable, though the 

 sun was out, the wind blowing up the river, mild 

 and gentle. 



There is another river which flows into Wa- 

 quoit Bay, known by the Indian name of Quashnut. 

 In its tide waters the sea-trout are sometimes col- 

 lected in considerable numbers. It is at best how- 

 ever an uncertain place, and never can amount to 

 much as a trout stream on account of the mill 

 which obstructs their progress to its upper waters, 

 to say nothing of the stealthy practice of seining, 

 before mentioned. And here it may be remarked 

 that the effect of a mill, as it respects the trout in 

 a stream, depends very much upon its location. If 

 it is high up and near the source, its operation is 

 far. less unfavorable to their annual upward tenden- 

 cy, as many instances might be adduced to prove, 

 but if on the contrary, as in the instance of the 

 stream last mentioned, the fall happens to be such 

 that the mill is erected upon the lower waters, it 

 proves an effectual barrier to their migrations, and 

 they desert the stream for one more congenial to 



