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is a solid, unbroken sheet or column, they will scale 

 falls and dams fifteen feet high. 



We had the very cream and flower of our 'trout- 

 fishing at this lake. For the first time we could use 

 the fly to advantage ; and then the contrast between 

 laborious tramping along shore, on the one hand, and 

 sitting in one end of a dug-out and casting your line 

 right and left with no fear of entanglement in brush 

 or branch, while you was gently propelled along, on 

 the other, was of the most pleasing character. 



There were two varieties of trout in the lake, 

 what it seems proper to call silver trout and golden 

 trout ; the former were the slimmer and seemed to 

 keep apart from the latter. Starting from the outlet 

 and working round on the eastern side toward the 

 head, we invariably caught these first. They glanced 

 in the sun like bars of silver. Their sides and bellies 

 were indeed as white as new silver. As we neared 

 the head, and especially as we came near a space 

 occupied by some kind of watergrass that grew in 

 the deeper part of the lake, the other variety would 

 begin to take the hook, their bellies a bright gold 

 color, which became a deep orange on their fins ; 

 and as we returned to the place of departure with 

 the bottom of the boat strewn with these bright 

 forms intermingled, it was a sight not soon to be 

 forgotten. It pleased my eye so, that I would fain 

 linger over them, arranging them in rows and study- 

 ing the various hues and tints. They were of nearly 

 a uniform size, rarely one over ten or under eight 



