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all the marks and characteristics of the common brook-trout, 

 but much thicker and more " chunky " in proportion to his 

 length, and often attains a weight of ten pounds. It is 

 found in Lake Eichardson, Sebago Lake, Moosehead Lake, 

 and in Lakes Umbagog, Eangely, and other feeders of the 

 Kennebec and Androscoggin Eiyers in Maine, and is direct- 

 ly allied to the Salmo confinis. In the Neepigon Eiver, 

 which 'empties into Lake Superior, are two distinct varieties 

 of trout, one of which closely resembles the Sebago trout, 

 and the other the ordinary brook- trout. Both are of extra- 

 ordinary size, and afford superlative sport to the angler. 



In Loch Lomond, near St. John, New Brunswick, there is 

 a fish known as the white trout, which differs in many re- 

 spects from its kindred, and is generally believed to be a dis- 

 tinct variety. 



The list herewith given comprises nearly all the known or 

 recognized varieties of Salmonidse in America. 



VI. 



"Were the earnest seeker after knowledge to critically exam- 

 ine all the learned disquisitions on SALMON" that have been 

 put forth since the days of Pliny by the best recognized 

 authorities, he would utterly despair of ever learning any- 

 thing. The whole subject the habits of the salmon, his 

 food, his habitat, even his personal identity would become 

 as much a mystery as the question of revealed religion, vexed 

 by the theologians of eight hundred sects. "Confusion 

 worse confounded" has always attended the controversies of 

 these learned doctors, who seem inclined to make the sub- 

 ject a mystery, in order that out of its hidden depths they 

 may exhume and unfold to an admiring world the golden 

 results of their own profound investigations. And still the 

 great conundrum, " When is a salmon not a salmon ? " lies 

 open for solution ! 



