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extreme nortliern portion of the United States andtlie 

 Dominion for trout or salmon, little or no sport will 

 be experienced by the angler until the snow-water 

 has run off; in fact I do not believe the latter fish 

 will enter a river that has not got rid of that addi- 

 tion. We got to our fishing-ground just at the de- 

 sired time ; a guide we consulted said we were too 

 soon. It being better to be early than late, avc 

 pushed at once for our first halting-place, and the 

 result was that we hit things so nicely that we struck 

 the opening day. For about two or three weeks 

 the take was very great, and the variety of coloring 

 among our j^rizes something wonderful. A collect- 

 ing naturalist, a pupil of tlie celebrated professor of 

 natural history at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mas- 

 sachusetts, joined our party a few days after our 

 arrival, and all these various colored fish were desig- 

 nated by him as Sahno fontinalis. To so great an 

 authority I did not presume to differ, still when lie 

 informed me that the Salmo fontinalis of American 

 waters was identical with our home brook-trout I 

 thought that the lively, game little beauty of our 

 mountain streams had wonderfully changed in color 

 and appearance from his trans-Atlantic brother, or 

 vice verad. As the weather bei2-an to j;-et warmer 



