DESCRIPTION OF THE ATTIHAWMEG. 185 



lochs ; and, I have little doubt, with the crab-eating Trout of 

 the Marshpee river in this country. 



To the excellence of the White Fish, I can bear personal tes- 

 timony when on the table, but I have never had an opportunity 

 of examining it ; and I am indebted for the description below 

 to the "Fauna Boreali- Americana," of the author I have so often 

 quoted. 



I am informed that this fish is occasionally taken by persons 

 engaged in trolling for the Lake Trout, or throwing the fly for 

 the Black Bass [Grystes Nigricans), nor can I at all doubt that 

 were his habits properly observed and carefully studied by a 

 scientific angler, judging from what has been stated above in 

 relation to his food, he might be taken with the hook with as 

 much certainty as any other of the lake fish, unless, perhaps, 

 the Black Bass, and he would assuredly show great sport at the 

 end of a long line, being both a powerful and active fish. 



The average weight of this fish appears to be three or four 

 pounds, but, when very fat, it is often taken up to seven or eight; 

 and in particular localities it attains a much greater size, having 

 been caught in Lake Huron of thirteen or fourteen, and in Lake 

 Manito, it is said, of twenty. 



One of seven pounds, caught in Lake Huron, measured twenty- 

 seven inches in length. 



In form, the Attihawmeg is very deep in comparison to its 

 length ; one of the ordinary size, taken in Pine Island Lake, 

 measuring as five to seventeen, exclusive of the caudal fin ; but 

 when very fat, its depth is as one to three. 



The body is compressed, being much less thick than deep. 

 The head is narrow above, with a moderately wide frontal 



