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of his family, as the salmon-trout, or sea-trout, the 
spotted, or bruok-trout, the several varieties of lake-trout 
peculiar to the great inland waters of this country, and 
the many other more distantly connected species which 
it is unnecessary here to enumerate, though it may be 
well to state that the White fish of the lakes, the Otsego 
bass, the smelt, and the capelinn, are all of this family. 
These fin rays in the true salmon are as follows: in 
the first dorsal, 15—second dorsal, 0—pectorals, each. 
14—ventrals, each, 10—anal, 18—caudal fin, or tail, 21. 
I have been more particular in dwelling on these par- 
ticulars, because I am well aware that there are many 
good sportsmen throughout the country in the habit of 
miscalling many fishes, from ignorance of the true dis- 
tinctive marks, who will gladly receive information 
which, as a general rule, can only be. obtained from 
costly scientific works, out of the reach of the mass of 
men, and entirely unattainable in remote inland districts. 
A little attention to these distinctions would soon put an 
end-to all the confusion now arising from the application 
of the same names to entirely different fishes in different 
sections of the country; even as a little attention to the 
habits and seasous of the finny, no less than of the 
feathery and fur-clad tribes, would tend at least to pre- 
vent their indiscriminate and cruel destruction at seasons 
when they are busy in the work of reproduction, and 
when, as it would seem by a special dispensation of 
Providence, they are unfit for the food of man. 
