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iiii: sisK \\\ n/. 



Nt)UTin:uN i.AKi: tuout. 



Saliiw Sitl-uiciU-' A(iAs>i/. 



Tills lliu' fisli, which is scfDiid (tiily in si/.c to that last 

 ilescril)i(l, was discoveretl so recently as last suiunur, (Imini; 

 a trip t(» tiic nijper hikes for scientific i)urpi)ses hv I'lofcssor 

 A^assiz, to whose courtesy aiul kindness I owe the power ot" 

 inchidinjc it in this work, as it lias not np to tliis time been 

 described or Hgured in any book of natural history. A journal 

 of that tour is at this moment passin*; throuj^h the I'niversitv 

 press at Harvard, which will comprise a full account of this, 

 and several other previously nondescript fishes, together with 

 accurate and beautiful lithographic illustrations by SonrtI ; and 

 to this, for fuller information, ••uid especially for accounts of 

 several species which do lujt come within the limits of this 

 work, I refer my readers, certain that they will drrive both 

 pleasure aiul profit from the perusal. 



The Si.skawitz, in its colouring and general appearance, as 

 regarded by an uninstructed eye, bears a very ccuisiderabie 

 resemblance to the Mackinaw Salmon, or Nanuiycu.<*li, par- 

 ticularly to that accidental variety of it which I have described 

 above a.n the Truite de (iri've , and is found in the same waters 

 with it, inoHt abundantly in I>ake Superi«»r and Lake Ilunui, 

 but nu)rc or less commonly in all the lakes above the Falls of 

 Niagara. In Ontario, and, as it is believed, in the snwdlir 



