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nature, within a few miles^ perhaps within a few hundred yards, 

 of the scene of action. 



One place already made to hand, requiring no improvement 

 or alteration, strikes me on the instant; and one familiar, I 

 doubt not, to very many of my readers. I mean Barhydt's 

 Trout-ponds, near Saratoga Springs, where the Brook Trout 

 abound, in what perfection all epicures well know, and where 

 the Lake Trout could be obtained, with small trouble, alive, 

 from the waters of Lake George, and recently dead, without 

 any trouble at all. Whether the latter fish is found in Saratoga 

 Lake or not, I cannot say ; but I should rather suppose it is ; 

 if so, the matter would be yet further simplified. 



The apparatus described above, Avhich could be made at the 

 cost of a few shillings, might be placed in the runway, between 

 the upper and lower ponds, so as to allow that beautifully clear 

 and sparkling source to bathe the ova constantly, until hatched ; 

 after which the fry should be kept in confined vessels until the 

 3'olks of the egg were absorbed, Avhen they should be transposed 

 to one or other of the tanks, fed by the streamlet. 



In the same manner, in many places, especially in Maine, near 

 the west branch of the Penobscot, where it flows within a few 

 miles of Moosehead Lake, the former a favourite spawning 

 station of the true Salmon, the latter abounding in the large 

 Lake Trout, weighing sometimes up to thirty or forty pounds, 

 it might easily be ascertained whether a hybrid could be ob- 

 tained between these two fishes ; and so, perhaps, in a greater 

 degree upon the shores of the great lakes, where both these 

 species are taken, eastward at least of Niagara. 



A similar trial might be made with the ova of the Salmon, 



