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406 Miscellanies. 
About fifteen years since Mr. Robert Kinyon, then living at the village. 
of Amber on the east shore of the Otisco lake, in Onondaga county, de- 
termined to make an effort to introduce into its waters, yellow perch from 
the Skaneateles, in the waters of which they abound; and pickerel from — 
the cluster of lakes or ponds that constitute the extreme northern sources 
of the Tioughuioga branch of the Susquehanna river, in some of which 
this fish is very plentiful. Neither of these fishes had been seen in the 
Otisco; but suckers, an occasional white fish from the lakes, and the 
delicious speckled trout abounded in its waters, as well as the smaller 
fishes common to all our lakes. In the Skaneateles, only three miles dis- 
tant, were found the perch and the salmon trout, both strangers to the 
Otisco. A dozen-perch of medium size were caught with hooks, a 
bartel of water, and transported from one lake to the other without fii- 
culty. The third year from their removal the Otisco seemed to be filled 
with them; and I have frequently heard it remarked, that in that and the 
succeeding year, the perch both for size and numbers exceeded that of 
any year since in these respects. If we may speak of our own piscatory 
labors, we may say they were decidedly more successful in those years 80 
far as this fish was concerned, than they have ever been since. A quan- 
tity of the pickerel were the same season introduced in the same way, but 
they have not multiplied; indeed we have never heard of a fish of this 
kind being taken in the Otisco. 
The fine trout that formerly were caught in the lake’ have gradually 
become scarce, and are now very rarely taken. ‘This by some has been 
attributed to the introduction of the perch; but it is believed a more sat- 
isfactory cause is to be found in the perseverance and success with which 
the trout was pursued when entering the inlets or making its beds on the 
shores in October and November, for the purpose of spawning. Very few 
that entered the streams escaped, and in this case, the capture of one was 
frequently the destruction of a thousand. : 
We have known the common dace and bullpout of this Jake, trans- 
ported some three or four miles to a mill pond, in which they have multi- 
plied to a great extent; the former filling the streams both above and be- 
low the pond, while the latter preferred the deep water and muddy bottom 
of the pond to the clear water of the streams. We imagine there are few 
if any of our fresh-water fishes, that may not be successfully removed to 
other locations, should it be found desirable. Ww. G. 
Otisco, N. Y. Jan. 1841, 
8. Stars missing—In the volume of Greenwich Astronomical Obser- 
vations made in 1838, (published in London, 1840, 4to.) the following 
stars are reported as having been repeatedly sought for, but without 
success : 
A star A.R. 2h. 9m.; N.P.D. 24° 31’, observed with Ramsden’s secto’, 
in the Ordnance Survey of England. ee 
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