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them as appertainin 
amused by their appearances. There were many young men 
g to the outer world. I was greatly 
znnong them who displayed great taste in the arrangement 
of their hair; and some of the squaws had heads of locks 
worth diamonds, and for which many of our belles would 
swap their eye-teeth, of best manufacture, for similar heads | 
of natural growth. 
On our arrival at the mouth of the river, the dogs came 
from some thirty cabins to weleome us. They were of all 
kinds, sizes, and colors, and their salutations were most wel- 
come. The sight and hospitable bark of our own kind of 
dogs gladdened our eyes and ears, producing a charming ef- 
fect. Having landed and become hospitably housed at the 
quarters of the governinent agent, while our guides attended 
to landing our luggage and cutting fir-boughs for our beds, 
we jointed our trout-rods, and walked a short distance from 
the cabin to the sandy shore of the river, where, within thir- 
ty minutes, we took over fifty sea trout averaging a pound 
each. I frequently fastened two at a time on the same cast 
of thes with which I had last fished on Long Island. 
SECTION TENTIHI. 
THE SILVER OR SEA TROUT, 
This fish habits for nearly half the year the tidal waters 
of the streams in Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. 
It is also taken in the estuaries of rivers in Maine, Massachu- 
setts, and Long Island. Being aware of the high authorities 
which assert this to be a distinct family of the Salmo genus, 
I must beg humbly to dissent; and from the following de- 
scription I invite anglers to decide for themselves whether 
the sea trout is not the Salmo fontinalis, or brook trout, com- 
mon to the streams of the northern part of North America. 
The sea trout is similar to the brook trout in all facial peen- 
liarities. It is shaped like the brook trout; the vermiculate 
marks on the back and above the lateral line are like those 
of the brook trout ; its vermilion, white, and amber dots are 
