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general rendezvous of the silvery salmon-trout, 

 where as many as fifty may be captured by one 

 rod in any day during May and June, and where 

 barrelfuls are annually salted or iced, and trans- 

 ported to the great cities of the United States. 

 Notwithstanding the annual increase in the number 

 of fishermen, there appears to be no diminution 

 of fish whatever. It is suggested that the larger 

 number of adults captured gives a better chance 

 to the young to come to maturity. 



" After a pleasant row through these lakes," 

 writes a well-known angler, " where broods of 

 wild ducks kept my gun in constant requisition, 

 we disembarked at the debouchure of Grand Lake 

 stream, and pitched our tent under the trees, 

 when the unfortunate Professor spent a night of 

 intense torment from mosquitos. I don't exactly 

 know why these pests occasionally single out 

 certain persons in preference to others, but, 

 although I have had very good cause to complain 

 in common with others, I must say neither black 

 fly, sand-fly, nor mosquito managed to make me 

 so miserable as many of my companions. Indeed, 

 on the following morning, after breakfast, whilst 

 the Indian was conveying the canoe and our 

 chattels along the portage by the banks of the 



