172 SALMONID.^.. 



" Of the gill-covers, the pre-operculum has the form of a wide 

 moderately-curved crescent. The sub-operculum is more than 

 half the height of the operculum, not exceeding it in length. 

 Inter-operculum, small, and acute-angled. 



" The dorsal fin has twenty-three rays ; the pectorals, fifteen ; 

 the ventralsj nine; the anal, thirteen : and the caudal, nineteen.'^ 



Although this exquisitely beautiful and very game fish is 

 not, as I have previously observed, properly speaking, a native 

 either of the United States or the British provinces, being only 

 found in the northern part of the unsettled regions of British 

 America, and the waters flowing from Great Slave Lake into the 

 Arctic Ocean ; still, so wonderfully are the facilities of travel 

 increasing through the west and north, and so great is the 

 enthusiasm of the Anglo-Norman race in all matters connected 

 with sporting and sportsmanship, that it by no means appears 

 to me impossible that, before many years have elapsed, the 

 lovers of the angle, whether of English or American birth, will 

 be found casting the fly in the glass-clear rapids of the Winter 

 River, and the other waters of those untamed regions, for the 

 Arctic Grayling, and the many beautiful species of Salmon that 

 are to be taken there. Nor would there I beheve be much more 

 risk or hardship attending the performance of such a sporting 

 tour, by a strong and well-found party, than was incurred, not 

 only without hesitation, but with alacrity and enthusiasm, by 

 the sporting gentlemen who crossed the Mississippi, in pursuit 

 of the elk and buff'alo, at any time antecedent to the Black 

 Hawk war. 



The excitement, the novelty, and, consequently, the charm of 

 such an expedition, would be indescribable j and as the brief 



