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my eye they are identical in appearance ; and the fly 

 which lures the one captures the other. Even when 

 hooked their exertions to escape are essentially the same, 

 characterised by efforts which only cease when nature 

 is exhausted. At the same time, I would not be cer- 

 tain that both have the same number of spines in the 

 caudal, ventral, or dorsal fins ; and on a difference in 

 such points the naturalist feels justified in forming his 

 decision* 



Day after day I have fished for these beauties ; 

 hundreds have I taken ; and if the reader and I are 

 like-minded, he will vow that there is no more noble 

 quarry to capture, or one which, when taken, makes a 

 more gallant struggle for freedom and life. 



CHAR (BROOK-TROUT). 



The States of New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsyl- 

 vania may be considered the southern limit on the 

 American continent of the habitat of this brilliantly 

 coloured, beautiful fish. How far to the north they 

 can be found is difficult to say, but of one thing we are 

 certain, viz., that all the streams and lakes of Labrador 

 or the Hudson Bay territory are abundantly supplied 

 with them. It has been observed by me, and fre- 

 quently have I heard it commented on by others, that 

 the trout from the southern waters are dull, listless, 

 and much less brilliant in their hues than those from 

 the northern streams at the same time the artificial 

 fiy, so greedily taken in high latitudes, ceases to be 

 as attractive a lure as you progress south the fish of 

 some streams even refusing entirely to notice it. 



Doctor Bethune was, I believe, the first authority 



