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orders, I have been compelled to go into natural history ; and 

 that you may see the whole, I send some reports printed in 

 1847, including one on the Forest Trees of New Brunswick. I 

 procured the second edition of Yarrel when in London last 

 year, and the beautiful supplement containing the plates of the 

 Salmon, from the little Parr up to the Grilse of two years, all of 

 which I have been compelled to study. 



" The White Trout of the Gulf of St. Lawrence is precisely 

 similar to the Sahno Trutta of Yarrel. The drawing of Vol. II., 

 p. 77, second edition, is a very good representation of our 

 White Trout. In June, when in the finest condition, they 

 are somewhat deeper than there represented " — the cut is a 

 fac-simile of the plate in Yarrel alluded to by Mr. Perley — 

 " the shoulder is then exceedingly thick ; the head, espe- 

 cially in the female, is very small. I never heard of any 

 weighing more than seven pounds. I have never seen a 

 White Trout on this side of the province, or anywhere except 

 within the gulf. They are of delicious flavour when newly 

 caught, the white curds lying thick between the bright pink 

 flakes; and they do not cloy like the Salmon. 



"Many of the Common Trout {Salmo Fario)" — Fontinalis? 

 — " also visit the mixed water of the estuaries, and very likely 

 go out to sea. They then acquire a very silvery brilliancy, and 

 their condition becomes greatly improved; b it they cannot be 

 mistaken, even then, for the White Trout. They are a longer 

 fish— their heads are larger — the colour of the spots is more 

 brilliant, and there are more of them ; and the tricoloured fins 

 leave no room for doubt, as the fins of the White Trout are 

 very pale, and of a bluish white. When first lifted from the sea. 



