iSo THE PERCH. 



like this until we reached Liverpool, after ten 

 days' passage. 



" I now got fresh water, and changed all in the 

 tanks. The fish did not object in the least, but 

 were quite lively. It did not hurt them changing 

 the water from American to British. I got them 

 conveyed to the railway station and placed on a 

 truck. We arrived at Stamford in due course ; 

 and on counting the fish, I found we had 153. I 

 left the Delaware River with 250, so that I had lost 

 97 fish in twelve days. 



" In 1879 I went again, and started from America 

 with 1,200 black bass, and on arriving home had 

 812, having done better than on the previous occa- 

 sion. All of the black bass were for the Marquis of 

 Exeter, he having borne all the expenses of the 

 experiments. 



" Most of the fish were placed in a lake belong 

 ing to his lordship, called ' White Water,' near 

 Stamford. They would be about half a pound 

 each in weight, so that they had done very well. 

 The first lot that were put in will be three years 

 old in April, when they are expected to commence 

 breeding." l 



It has been stated that the black bass of the 

 North American Continent is a fish esteemed by 

 American anglers even above the trout. 



Professor Browne Goode, the American Com~ 

 missioner to the International Fisheries' Exhibition,, 

 1883, stated that " as an ' angler's fish,' he believed 

 the black bass to be superior to any fish in Great 

 Britain outside the salmon family, and that its in- 

 troduction into rivers where pike, perch, roach and 

 bream are the principal occupants, could do no^ 

 1 Buckland's Natural History of British Fishes. 



