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to defy the plague of flies, and rough it. At the Sault 

 St. Marie, the outlet of Lake Superior into Lake Huron, 

 where the St. Marie, a river above a mile wide, rushes in 

 a sheet of glancing and foaming rapids, down a descent 

 of some twenty-four feet in about a mile, literally alive 

 with the most magnificent brook-trout, by far the largest, 

 in the general run, of any taken in America, the season 

 does not begin until very late, and the fishing is not con- 

 * sidered to be in its prime until September. The fish 

 here are of the finest quality, for size, beauty of color- 

 ing, and excellence of flesh. From two to three pound 

 may be considered, I think, as -about the average run of 

 fish, but five and six pounders are by no means rarities ; 

 and it is on record that one fish a little exceeding ten 

 pounds, and many exceeding nine, were brought into 

 the American fort by the Indians, a premium having 

 been offered for a ten-pounder. These, I wish it to be 

 particularly observed, are not lake trout of any variety 

 several species of which are found in the same waters 

 but the genuine red-spotted brook-trout, with pink 

 sides and silver belly, and tricolored fins, white, black, 

 and red, when in high season. It diifers in nothing, 

 except size and brilliancy of tints, both the result of 

 feeding and quality of water, from the famous Long 

 Island trout of Snedecor's and Carman's, or from the 

 small fry, scarcely bigger than minnows, which swarm 

 in every rocky basin of every mountain brooklet from 



