8 DESCRIPTION, CLASSIFICATION, AND 



in his interesting* work on the field sports of the north 

 of Europe, says : " Near Katrineberg there is a valuable 

 fishery for salmon, ten or twelve thousand of these 

 fish being taken annually. These salmon are bred in 

 a lake, and in consequence of cataracts cannot have 

 access to (?) the sea. They are small in size and inferior 

 in flavor." Are they ouananiche, or what ? 



Mr. Scrope relates f that Mr. George Dormer, of 

 Stone Mills, in the parish of Bridport, put a female 

 salmon which measured twenty inches in length, and 

 was caught by him at his mill-dam, into a small well, 

 where it remained twelve years, became quite tame 

 and familiar, so as to feed from the hand, and was vis- 

 ited by many persons of respectability from Exeter and 

 its neighborhood. 



The early Romans extended their cultivation of the 

 art of pisciculture to that of acclimation, or the breed- 

 ing and raising of salt-water fish probably those of 

 anadromous habits in lakes and fresh-water rivers. 



A recent writer,;}: improving upon the fanciful theory 

 advanced by Mr. McCarthy, that the progenitors of 

 Lake St. John's ouananiche were imprisoned above an 

 impassable barrier at Chicoutimi, by some upheaval of 

 nature which prevented their return to salt water and 



* Field Sports of the North of Europe: Comprised in a Personal 

 Narrative of a Residence in Sweden and Norway in the Tears 1827-28. 

 2 vols. London, 1830. 



f Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed, by William 

 Scrope, Esq. London, 1843. 



\ Rev. Joseph Gamble, in a paper read before the Plattsburg Insti- 

 tute, February 4, 1895. 



See The Leaping Ouananiche, by Mr. Eugene McCarthy (1894), 

 p. 11. 



