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the lakes, its scales are so small as to be scarcely perceptible, 
but its body is marked with fine, transverse diagonal lines, 
forming diamonds or canvas like the surface of fine drilling 
or marseilles, This is an unfailing mark of peculiarity. Its 
meat is pink-colored, with rich layers of cream between its 
flakes. 
ReD Trout oF Lone Lake. 
The red trout will rise to the artificial fly, take a feathered 
spoon or well-dissembled minnow. Trolling is the favorite 
mode of fishing for this beauty, whose average weight is from 
five to fifteen pounds. It ts very gamy, displaying much 
muscular force and propulsive power in its runs and leaps. 
To angle for the red trout is worth a voyage to the Adiron- 
dacks in June and July. It is fine sport to use salmon-tackle 
and take him on the fly until fatigued, when the exercise may 
be changed to trolling. 
There is a universe of pent-up luxuries for the sportsman 
in that ninety-two miles square known as the Adirondacks, 
in the heart of the State of New York. A hundred moun- 
tains shade as many lakes, which teem with living beauties 
too rich in coloring and symmetrical in form to be copied by 
the painter’s art. All the American varieties of the Sumo 
genus except the selar are found in these lakes and their trib- 
utaries, with the palpitations of busy life shut out, and naught 
but a simple tenting residence on aromatic boughs for a bed, 
where the timid deer comes with her spotted fawn to the 
margin of the lake to drink, and hesitatingly trusts the cross- 
paths of men. The eagles soar aloft in the heavens above 
the blue summits of cloud-capped mountains which seem to 
jostle each other, Imagination is not sufticiently vivid to 
