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or on those of a number of other clubs. Most of these 

 clubs control all the fishing and hunting in some three 

 to four hundred square miles of territory, and the pre- 

 serves of some of them will become all the more 

 valuable from the fact that they border upon the ter- 

 ritory only recently set apart by the provincial Legis- 

 lature as a national park. The membership of most 

 of them is principally drawn from the ranks of New 

 York, Boston, Springfield, Washington, Bridgeport, 

 New Haven, Hartford, and Waterbury anglers, and 

 pretty much all of them are full, with the exception 

 of the Triton, which is of only recent establishment. 



The limits of this club's preserve enclose five hundred 

 square miles of territory. In 1892 Colonel A. L. Light, 

 C.E., president of the club, killed fourteen trout in 

 one hour, weighing forty-five pounds; That these were 

 not exceptionally heavy fish for Canada's north coun- 

 try is shown by the following extract from Mr. A. N. 

 Cheney's " Angling Notes," in Fore^ and Stream of 

 March 17, 1894: 



"la Forest and Stream of February 24th I quoted from a letter 

 written to me from Quebec by an English gentleman travelling in 

 this country as follows : ' I thought our Kentish Stour trout, which 

 run up to eight and a half and nine pounds, were large, but those 

 here scale ten pounds.' He did not say what kind of trout they 

 were, but I assumed that they were onr fontinalis, and if so I thought 

 ten pounds rather large even for Canada at car-nival time ; therefore 

 I wrote to my friend Mr. E. T. D. Chambers, of Quebec, to ask 

 about the species and the weight, and whether it was carnival weight 

 or old-fashioned avoirdupois. Mr. Chambers writes me : ' Your last 

 letter interested me very much, particularly as I happened to have 

 seen and know all about the big trout therein referred to. They 

 were monsters, no doubt, and all foniinalis at that. But they played 

 the same trick upon the visual contemplation of Mr. H that 



