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15. In the same spring I took 500 yearlings and 12 

 large trout, very fat, in the same tank, in forty gallons of 

 water, to Webster, Mass., no miles, in thirteen hours, 

 with three- changes of cars. All seemed in first-rate con- 

 dition, with the exception of half a dozen yearlings, 

 which appeared to have been bruised. Mem. : In travel- 

 ling by rail with fish, it is better to have one large tank 

 than several smaller ones, provided you do not carry over 

 about fifty gallons of water. More than this makes it too 

 heavy to be handled safely in the hurry of railway travel. 



1 6. On the 2oth of November, 1871, 10,000 trout eggs 

 were packed in sphagnum moss in a common wooden box 

 about a foot square, at Charlestown, N. H. They went from 

 Charlestown to Boston, 120 miles by rail, on the same day. 

 They remained in Boston over night, and the next morn- 

 ing were put on board the ocean steamer which sailed that 

 day. They had a long passage of eighteen days to Liver- 

 pool, and a considerable journey by rail afterwards from 

 Liverpool to Keswick. At the end of the journey two 

 thirds were found in good condition, although some 

 hatched on the way and died, and the byssus generated 

 by these, and by some of the eggs that were killed during 

 the first part of the trip, made great havoc in places. 



