166 THE WONDERFUL TROUT 



the Hope river and the sea by a fall of sixty 

 feet. 



The trout of another very small circular 

 pool of considerable depth, also in the Gober- 

 neasgach forest, grow to a large size, and 

 show peculiar, high-humped backs, and are 

 very game and powerful fish. This pool lies 

 high up in the hills, and the stony stream 

 which descends the steep hillside from it is 

 often dry for long periods together. 



We could give from our personal experi- 

 ences an account of many more of these 

 curious conditions existing among trout in 

 isolated localities, but most of these were at 

 one time communicated to Dr. Day while he 

 was writing his volume on British Salmonidse. 

 We only instance a few. 



DEFORMITIES AMONG TROUT 



We may here simply refer to the papers 

 published in the Royal Physical Society's 

 Proceedings and Annals of Scottish Natural 

 History by Dr. R. H. Traquair, upon several 

 varieties of these peculiar deformities, much 

 of the materials for which papers were ob- 

 tained and supplied by ourselves. 



