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M. Schall on this invention, which will be of the highest utility not only 
for scientific labors, but also in many operations of domestic and rural 
economy. 
4. Fishes of Northern New York—Frozen Fish, (Sci. Amer., Jan- 
uary, 1854.)—Our lakes and streams, which, I believe, are the high- 
ice, they will revive on being thawed out. But if allowed to toss about 
inthe sun, on a clear day, and probably not freeze for an h6ur or two 
afier they are caught, then they will never revive. 
tis so common a thing, that I have only to go back to the last day 
I was fishing for an example of it. 1 went down to Lake Sandford with 
- our men, on the 29th ult., and at night we carried home in our 
Sai boe 
trough of running spring water, and when thawed out found six of them 
alive. The others had probably been caught in the warmest part of 
Notice how many. ey are, however, a much more delicate fish 
= the Siclgiel ae sank and more easily hurt and killed than either 
them, 
. On the afternoon of the 24th ult. I had fished faithfully for pickerel 
till Sundown, without even getting an encouraging nibble ; tired at last 
Pg pond behind the village, formed by the damming of the river, is 
fee one male and two females; every one of them were brou 
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