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above the Great Falls, and salmon and sea-trout run 

 up the lower part of the stream. 



There are immense specimens of Salvelinus in the 

 lower stretches of many of the Labrador streams that 

 empty into the Gulf and Lower St. Lawrence, and 

 lusty warriors they are too, as many old salmon 

 fishermen can testify. Thus the famous nonagena- 

 rian angler and author, Samuel C. Clarke, is quoted 

 by Charles Hallock, in Forest and Stream of February 

 22, 1896, as follows : 



" Ever since I spent a day on the Nouvelle River, in Canada, and 

 made the best string of big trout that I ever killed, I have believed 

 that the sea-trout (Salmo Canadensis), from its salmon-like traits 

 and behavior, should have a name of its own, whatever the pro- 

 fessors may say." 



These fish go down to the sea in great shoals, and, 

 after seeing and fattening upon the wonders of the 

 deep, reascend to fresh water, to spawn, most gor- 

 geous in their freshly burnished liveries of silver and 

 olive and purple and crimson and gold. Many are 

 the disputes among the anglers who take them upon 

 their salmon tackle, or with grilse rods, as to the 

 identity of their species. Strange stories are told me 

 of the appearance of specimens that I have never seen, 

 but that are reported to differ tromfontindlis in more 

 than the immaterial matter of coloring. But for this 

 and sometimes even in spite of it I am tempted 

 to doubt the existence of any distinction but that of 

 anadromy, between these gorgeous sea-trout of the 

 estuaries of rivers flowing into the gulf and the 

 brook-trout of our inland waters. In other words, 

 are they not to these' latter what the sea-salmon is to 



