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Harrisville, Munsonville, Hillsborough, Warner, Sutton, New 

 London, Andover, Loudon, Concord, and in Croydon. In Massa- 

 besic and Sunapee Lakes, where they had been introduced, in 

 1868 and 1869, they Avere found to have increased, and, on the 

 authority of Dr. W. W. Fletcher, they have become exceedingly 

 numerous in Sunapee Lake. 



" The Commissioners of the state of Rhode Island, since 1870, 

 have stocked thirty ponds or small lakes in different parts of 

 the state with the black bass. 



" In Maine, in the fall of 1869, the State Commissioners and 

 the Oquossoc Angling Association introduced from Newburgh, 

 New York, a quantity of black bass. The waters of Duck Pond, 

 at Falmouth; Fitz Pond, in Dedham; Newport and Philips Ponds, 

 Cochnewagan Pond, in Monmouth; Cobbosseecontee Lake, in Win- 

 throp and adjoining towns, were stocked, and a few years after- 

 ward were reported to have increased largely in numbers. 



"Since the year 1871, black bass [small-mouth] and Oswego 

 bass [large-mouth] have been put into seventy lakes, ponds, or 

 streams of the state of New York by the Commissioners. They 

 had made their way of their own accord through the canals con- 

 necting Lake Erie with the Hudson, into that stream. 



" Private citizens of Pennsylvania introduced the black bass 

 [small-mouth] into the Susquehanna about 1869, at Harrisburg. 

 In 1873 the tributaries of the Susquehanna, the Potomac, and 

 Delaware Rivers were supplied with black bass by the Commis- 

 sioners at thirty-five different points. 



" In the year 1854, Mr. William Shriver, of Wheeling, Virginia, 

 planted in the canal basin at Cumberland, Maryland, his former 

 liome, a number of the black bass [small-mouth] ; from the basin 

 they escaped into the Potomac River, where they have increased 

 immensely at the present day. They were moved from the waters 

 of the Ohio River to their new locality in the tank of a loco- 

 motive. Numerous cases have also occurred of transfer from one 

 locality in the southern states to another. 



" There have been very many transfers of these valuable species 

 that have not been recorded, as they are easily kept alive while 

 being moved from one place to another, and propagate surely and 

 rapidly in ponds, lakes, and rivers. 



" These details are given because they show the facility with 



