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growth of submerged water weed with several pretty patches of 

 pickerel weed standing in adjacent shoals. Here the bottom is deep 

 and muddy and here bulllieads, sunfish and horned dace abound and 

 small boys angle for them or catch the smaller of them in wire 

 minnow traps. Schools of the re:l-bellied minnow may be seen 

 about the edge of the beds of vegetation or darting into the 

 shadow of the few great rocks that lie here. 



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Map _> The vicinity of Old Forge 

 o Old Forge; p Old Forge pond; q Lily pond; r Bald Mountain pond; i Twin ponds; t Beaver 

 Meadow biook; v Little Moose mountain; iv Panther mountain; i, 2, 3, 4 the first four lakes of 

 Fulton chain 



At the south end of the pond, where a spring is said to enter 

 below the water line, there is much angling for speckled trout, but 

 few trout are taken there, and such as I saw taken were small and 

 lean. Some of the coves that receive spring brooks entering from 

 the south farther up the channel yielded an occasional fine string of 

 speckled trout. (3ne of these coves in which we did considerable 

 collecting, about a mile eastward from Old Forge on the south 

 side of the channel is the one which drains the western of the twin 

 ponds. Growing upon the submerged hemlock tops in this cove 

 were some of the most remarkable growths of fresh water sponges 

 that I ever saw. Great masses [pi. 9, fig. 2] varying betw^een 

 crustaceous and columnar, of a vivid green color, were to be seen 



