3fiO PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 



had terminated; but not so, a few sharp nights of 

 frost took place, and going one morning to obtain 

 sufficient fish for breakfast, in the run that formed the 

 exit of the river from the lake, I with pleasure, in 

 succession, captured several of the beauties. From 

 that day forward they became more numerous, and the 

 last morning's fishing which I here enjoyed, with the 

 snow flying so thick that I could scarcely see my flies, 

 I killed not only the greatest number, but the heaviest 

 of the brilliant representatives I had captured during 

 the season. With regret, having no desire Jo pass 

 almost an arctic winter, I turned my back upon the 

 three lonely lovely lakes, with the following unpro- 

 nounceable Indian names, Molleychunkeymimk, 

 Mooseluckmaguntic, and Moligewalk, to seek the 

 boundless prairies of the far West, and to substitute 

 for constant companion, my double barrel, in place of 

 my well-tried tapering fly-rod. 



In my experience as a fisherman in Scotland and 

 Ireland, I never knew of our river trout being cap- 

 tured in the sea. In Long Island, what is there 

 called the brook trout (Salmo fontinalis) is well known 

 periodically, when practicable, to visit salt water; in 

 fact they are constantly taken with the fly in the tidal 

 portion of those streams. The char of Norway and 

 Sweden does the same, and I can only say that both 

 these fish are wondrously alike. On the other hand, 

 the brilliant-coloured inhabitants of the interior lakes 

 of Maine, that I have mentioned, cannot do so, for, if 

 they survived the descent of the Burling falls, their 

 ascent would be impossible. Although the arctic char 

 goes to the sea, the more -resplendent coloured relation 

 remains, I think, constantly in his fresh-water retreats 



