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ever caught in any waters about here, weighing seven pounds and 

 fourteen ounces, and the other six and a quarter pounds. The 

 most remarkable fact is, perhaps, the effect of food upon the 

 growth of fish. The two fish in question were caught in Long 

 Pond, near here, August 1, 1877. Long Pond was stocked with 

 six small bass from Lake George, New York, in 1866, they having 

 been put into a stream emptying into the pond by some gentlemen, 

 who, on their way from camping a week at Lake George, had to 

 cross this stream to reach home; and the putting the fish into 

 the stream was suggested by their catching a number of small 

 bass during the last day in camp. 



" The fact of their deposit was almost forgotten, when, in 

 1874-75, quantities of bass were discovered in the pond, which had 

 hitherto been Inhabited by pickerel, perch, and quantities of bait 

 fish, minnows, silver and gold shiners, etc. While Lake George 

 has never been known to yield a bass over six and a half pounds. 

 Long Pond has turned out at least a dozen over that weight." 



Upon a careful examination of the photograph, the fish 

 mentioned were found to be, not large-mouth, but small- 

 mouth bass without any doubt, and were extraordinary 

 examples of that species, the usual maximum weight of 

 which is about five pounds. Afterward Mr. Cheney re- 

 corded the capture of several more of these small-mouth 

 giants from the same waters (Long Pond, or Glen Lake). 



One of them, taken by a Mr. Eeed, was seen and weighed 

 by Mr. Cheney, who gave its proportions as follows : weight, 

 eight and one-quarter pounds; length, from end of snout, 

 to fork of tail-fin, twenty-two and one-half inches; girth, 

 eighteen and one-half inches. Mr. Fred Mather saw this 

 fish and pronounced it a small-mouth bass. 



The other and larger fish was captured in the same 

 waters by a Mr. Boynton. Mr. Cheney weighed and 

 measured it and gave its weight as eight pounds and ten 

 ounces, its extreme leng|;h as twenty-five inches, and its 

 girth eighteen and three-fourth inches. 



