IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



negligible as a source of food, for light and 

 heat penetrate no farther in such degree 

 as to engender animal and vegetable life. 

 In clearer water, and with our fiercer suns, 

 the rule may be different, but the altitude 

 of 2200 feet must also be taken into account. 

 The lake deepens rapidly on both sides to 

 twenty feet or more. The tiny stream 

 which feeds it tumbles in abruptly, and the 

 decharge falls over an old beaver dam, so 

 that small trout would be without the usual 

 sanctuaries. A talus of boulders, breaking 

 the line of encircling forest for fifty or 

 sixty yards, gives the only spot whence a 

 line can be thrown from the shore. This 

 seemed a likely place for trout to lie, and 

 of it more anon. 



Rather doubting it worth while, we re- 

 solved to make an attempt at stocking the 

 water. Fish caught in the lake below were 

 kept alive in a landing-net trailing over- 

 board, transferred to a tin pail, and rushed 

 across the portage. All but a few were 

 able to swim away into a world which they 

 found very strange and new. judging by 

 their fearfulness and hesitation. 



A word is needed as to the lineage of 

 these hundred trout, averaging perhaps one 

 third of a pound. Their ancestors, to the 

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