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the lakes, its scales are so small as to be scarcely perceptible, 

 but its body is marked with fine, transverse diagonal lines, 

 forming diamonds or canvas like the surface of fine drilling 

 or marseilles. This is an unfailing mark of peculiarity. Its 

 meat is pink-colored, with rich layers of cream between its 

 flakes. 



BED TROUT OF LONG LAKE. 



The red trout will rise to the artificial fly, take a feathered 

 spoon or well-dissembled minnow. Trolling is the favorite 

 mode of fishing for this beauty, whose average weight is from 

 five to fifteen pounds. It is very gamy, displaying much 

 muscular force and propulsive power in its runs and leaps. 

 To angle for the red trout is worth a voyage to the Adiron- 

 dacks in June and July. It is fine sport to use salmon-tackle 

 and take him on the fly until fatigued, when the exercise may 

 be changed to trolling. 



There is a universe of pent-up luxuries for the sportsman 

 in that ninety-two miles square known as the Adirondacks, 

 in the heart of the State of New York. A hundred moun- 

 tains shade as many lakes, which teem with living beauties 

 too rich in coloring and symmetrical in form to be copied by 

 the painter's art. All the American varieties of the Salmo 

 genus except the solar are found in these lakes and their trib- 

 utaries, with the palpitations of busy life shut out, and naught 

 but a simple tenting residence on aromatic boughs for a bed, 

 where the timid deer comes with her spotted fawn to the 

 margin of the lake to drink, and hesitatingly trusts the cross- 

 paths of men. The eagles soar aloft in the heavens above 

 the blue summits of cloud-capped mountains which seem to 

 jostle each other. Imagination is not sufficiently vivid to 



