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even the estuaries which the larger species has forsaken 

 they do not in consequence desert. 



There was a time when the coast of Maine was 

 abundantly stocked with sea-trout ; but that age has 

 passed ; for long have these waters been glutted with the 

 debris of manufactures, or the still more injurious sawdust 

 from the pine-logs which have been severed into planks for 

 houses or ship-building purposes. 



The sea-trout of Canada, we are informed by authorities, 

 differs from that of British waters. Although I have 

 captured numbers of both, I have never been able to detect 

 where this distinction existed. To my eye they are 

 identical in appearance ; and the fly which lures the one 

 captures the other. Even when hooked, their exertions 

 to escape are essentially the same, characterised by efforts 

 which only cease when nature is exhausted. At the same 

 time, I would not be certain that both have the same 

 number of spines in the caudal, ventral, or dorsal fins; and 

 on a difference in such points the naturalist feels justified 

 in forming his decision. 



Day after day I have fished for these beauties ; hundreds 

 have I taken ; and if the reader and I are like-minded, he 

 will vow that there is no more noble quarry to capture, or 

 one which, when taken, makes a more gallant struggle for 

 freedom and life, 



CHAR (BROOK-TBOUT). 



The States of New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania 

 may be considered the southern limit on the American 

 continent of the habitat of this brilliantly coloured. 



