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grandly from the water, leaping sometimes over 

 two feet into the air. 



Strange as it may appear, the rainbow when 

 planted in Eastern waters suitable for them, ex- 

 hibit greater game qualities than is shown in 

 their native habitat. This was the unanimous 

 opinion of every angler with whom I fished for 

 rainbow in Michigan and in Keene Valley, New 

 York; and these rodsters had cast the feathers 

 for the indigenous fish of the streams of the state 

 of Washington and other sections. In Eastern 

 waters, the rainbow appear to have acquired in- 

 creased strength and certainly greater leaping 

 traits, but this improvement in size and fight- 

 ing quality is not unusual in transplanted fish. 

 The introduced black bass from Western waters 

 grows larger in Eastern lakes, and holds its 

 own, when on the hook, with the parent fish in 

 waters west of the Alleghanies. The abhorrent 

 carp brought from Germany grows larger and 

 more rapidly in our Southern waters, while he 

 increases our repugnance to his flesh as food the 

 more we see of him. The imported brown or 

 German trout, which is rapidly becoming the 

 butcher of our mountain brook beauties (fonti- 

 nalis\ bids fair to grow to the inert bulk of a 



