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in districts where they now live in comfort and plenty. 

 Owing also to its peculiarly delicate, gelatinous, and 

 nutritious qualities, its constant use is not productive of 

 the distaste or dislike which under similar circumstances 

 would no doubt be produced by almost any other con- 

 tinuous diet. Settlers and travellers always before accus- 

 tomed to a variety of food, have lived on this solely, for 

 twelve months together without tiring of it, and have 

 declared themselves able to stand more fatigue than when 

 living on flesh. 



Were it possible to introduce this fish into some 

 of our larger Scottish Lakes, and find suitable sub- 

 sistence for it, it would indeed be an acquisition to our 

 waters. 



A fish of another family, which is exceedingly abun- 

 dant in the Upper Lakes, and is becoming in many 

 other parts of the country, is the so-called " Lake- 

 herring," otherwise Shiner, Moon-eye, or Shad-waiter. 

 Yet beyond the fact of its great abundance, its readiness 

 to take any bait, at almost any season or hour, and its 

 very close resemblance in general appearance to the 

 common herring, less is perhaps really known about it 

 than of many other less common kinds. 



It would be difficult to persuade most of those who 

 know the fish by sight that it is not a herring; and the 

 few who have troubled themselves at all with any inquiry 



