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fbur hours, at midday and under a bright sun, we captured 

 four and a half bushels of these handsome fish and left ofif 

 from pure satiety. A hundred of these fish were over two 

 pounds in weight, and many of them four pounds, although 

 our attendant lamented that there were no large ones in 

 the pool. In fishing with two flies on ordinary trout gut, 

 the fish, having a dead pull against each other, would 

 break loose. After losing many flies in this way, we each 

 fished with a single salmon fly, generally a worn-out one, 

 left from my former summer's tackle ; and as long as there 

 was dubbing or feather on the hook they would seize it 

 freely. Their sharp teeth, which are much more formida- 

 ble than those of our brook trout, made a frequent renewal 

 necessary. We would have ceased this havoc sooner, but 

 young Harris, who drove our aquatic vehicle, said he 

 hauled the pool with a seine two or three times during the 

 summer for a stock of trout to salt down ; we accordingly 

 kept on until we had taken the quantity abOve given, to save 

 him the trouble of making the pool a visit with his seine. 



These fish frequent and spawn in the Miramiohi, on 

 which river (I have been informed by Kev. Livingston 

 Stone, of New Hampshire), a salmon-hatching establish- 

 ment will be started the coming autumn. Of course it is 

 to be supposed that those who have charge of it, will not 

 neglect so favorable an opportunity of procuring the eggs 

 of the sea trout and giving them the opportunity of makin" 

 sufficient progress in incubation to insure their safe trans- 

 portation to the states. 



At the time of writing the foregoing chapter on the 



