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dimensions, weighing twice as much as both the 

 others together, although the quantity of food 

 swallowed by them was in nowise so great." 



In the new Sporting Magazine for Nov., 1840, 

 a writer on fishes says, " An acutely-observing 

 friend of mine, who has paid great attention to 

 the growth of trout, states that they are rarely 

 visible the first year, that they congregate with 

 minnows and other small fry; the second, are 

 found on shallows ; the third summer, about seven 

 or eight inches long ; and subsequently increase 

 rapidly to a pound or a pound and a half, depend- 

 ent on the quantity and quality of their food, the 

 season, and other circumstances." 



This gentleman has for years kept trout in a 

 kind of store stream, and having fed them with 

 every kind of food, has had some of them increase 

 from one pound to ten pound in four years. 



Steven Oliver, in his agreeable scenes and 

 recollections of fly fishing, mentions a trout 



taken in the neighbourhood of Great Driffield, in 



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