RUINOUS MILL-DAMS. A KILLING FLY. 345 



Umbagog to recruit, or enjoy the cool retreats afforded in 

 its deep waters, at that portion of the season when the 

 summer sun pours down its refulgent, heated rays upon the 

 unprotected water. Persons who resided in this locality 

 years ago, informed me that before this r. it on the 



Cambridge was made, trout swarmed all the way up to the 

 source in times the quantity they do now. But why 

 grumble or find fault in this particular instance'.' Are such 

 shameful structures not to be found in every section of this 

 and my own land, a glaring example of want of forethought, 

 or selfishness, or worse ? But, thank goodness, such 

 abuses in America are about to be stopped; State legis- 

 lation has taken the matter in hand, and is determined 

 to enforce such severe penalties, that I hope, ere long, to 

 see the temporarily-deserted retreats of the spotted, brilliant- 

 hued trout again teeming with their numbers, and the 

 placid, sheltered pools, now still and tea. unless, boiling 

 with their breaks and rises, as they either roll over in sport, 

 or rush headlong to the surface after the dainty and fragile 

 ephemera. 



A lady, who formed one of our party frequently of an 

 evening, without moving from the bridge, took a ii 

 in an hour or so, plainly proving that even the uninitiated 

 can here be successful, for Madame previously had never 

 seen a trout captured in her life. The flies which we 

 should recommend for this stream are about the same in 



;i use on S,\uoh and Irish rivers, and of 

 same colouring, black and red hackles being preferable. 

 We also found a ily constructed as follows most killing: 

 the wings from the tail of the rutted grouse, with a few 



