100 GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. 



ample time for its transportation across the Atlantic. 

 I am further of opinion that, indiscriminately, gravel 

 or soil bottom is selected on which to deposit the 

 eggs ; for many of the rivers and ponds in which I 

 have captured this bass flowed through, or were 

 situated in deep bottom-lands, where a stone, even 

 as large as a pebble, would be difficult to find. One 

 pond in southern Illinois I particularly remember ; 

 it covered a space of about thirty acres, with an 

 average depth of about three feet, except in the 

 southern extremity, where about eight feet of water 

 could be found. The bottom was entirely composed 

 of mud ; yet this pond swarmed with black bass. 

 Lake Champlain, the St. Lawrence, and Lake 

 Ontario (all who have visited these regions will 

 remember) are remarkably clear, with gravelly or 

 rocky bottoms, and each is a favorite haunt of this 

 fish. I mention this to prove the better how univer- 

 sal a favorite and extensive his adoption might 

 become. 



A friend, once a resident of the Isle of Skye, and 

 a well-known successful trout and salmon fisherman, 

 had a beautiful little lake, about ten acres in extent, 

 on his estate, not many miles from Toronto, which 

 he had stocked with black bass. In a few years 



