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cumbed in less than twenty minutes. Moving my 

 position from some slow water, I took a cast in the 

 throat of a stream formed by the projection of some 

 rocks, not that I expected to rise a fish, but to get 

 the line out of my way as I scrambled over some 

 rough ground; in fact the water, although rapid, 

 looked too shallow for the retreat of anything over a 

 pound weight. With surprise I rose a fine brook 

 trout (Salmo fontinalis). Of course such a fish was 

 not to be despised, so I gave him a second chance, 

 and had the satisfaction of succeeding in striking him. 

 With my strong tackle and rod I treated him cavalierly, 

 and, in about ten minutes, had the pleasure of 

 handling and canvassing his weight, which was a 

 trifle over five pounds. 



I never remember to have seen a fish of more 

 brilliant colouring and beautiful proportions, and I 

 have little doubt that on a seven-ounce trout-rod he 

 would have given a good half-hour's pleasure. These 

 streams or those which lie in this portion of the 

 American continent swarm with trout, more parti- 

 cularly when you ascend some distance above the 

 tideway; and from information I have received from 

 fishermen who are acquainted with these waters that 

 lie nearer to civilisation, I have reason to believe that 

 brook trout can there be caught upwards of ten pounds 

 in weight. 



Moving down to the run, I recommenced, and rose 

 a very large fish the second cast; but our acquaint- 

 ance got no further, for all my blandishments were 

 futile to induce him again to move. A little lower 

 clown I was more successful, for I struck a regular 

 Trojan, whose memory still lives, and to whose per- 



