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regard to the ouananiche, or, as yve call them, land- 

 locked salmon, my first acquaintance with them dates 

 back to 1860 or 1861 (I am not sure which), Avhen I 

 visited Grand Lake stream, in the eastern part of the 

 State of Maine, Avhere they then existed in vast num- 

 bers ; and I have always retained a very vivid recol- 

 lection of the wonderful sport which I enjoyed. The 

 game character of the fish was a revelation, as up to 

 that time I had not killed a Salmo solar. I made 

 several careful studies of them and brought home 

 with me a few specimens, two of which I presented 

 to Professor Louis Agassiz. They were the first ones 

 he had ever seen. After a careful examination he 

 pronounced them to be landlocked salmon. One of 

 the specimens is preserved in the Agassiz Museum at 

 Cambridge. Several years after, on the occasion of 

 my first visit to the St. Marguerite, I captured two 

 fish which I at once recognized as identical with my 

 earlier acquaintance at the Grand Lake stream. As 

 to the difference between grilse and ouananiche, I 

 can only speak as to their external appearance, never 

 having dissected a specimen of either. This is very 

 marked, as the eye of the ouananiche is much the 

 larger, the profile rounder, the dark spots larger and 

 much more numerous. The body at its juncture with 

 the caudal is broader and fiatter, arid the head larger 

 in proportion to the body. In fact, the grilse is much 

 more of an aristocrat than his fresh-water cousin, be- 

 ing finer in his proportions and much purer in color — 

 due, no doubt, to his different habitat and food." 



The above and other variations that have been from 

 time to time reported in either the Canadian or Amer- 



