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is only about" one mile above, and consists of immense 

 springs which in some instances sprout from the ground, 

 and in others form large ponds, and by their current 

 drive mills. The stream is almost a river from its very 

 start and is filled with subsidiary springs its entire 

 course. An estimated flow of six barrels per second 

 comes from some of the initial springs, and the temper- 

 ature at the hatching house varies only 25°, from 35° to 

 60°, winter or summer. A record of the thermometer 

 has been kept for years during the hatching season and 

 is found to be restricted to a variation from November 

 to March from 35° to 45°, and stands ordinarily about 

 36° ; the springs themselves remaining invariably at 50°. 

 There is as little variation in the volume as in the 

 temperature of the water, as the proximity to the 

 source prevents the efibet of freshets or drouths. The 

 stream is simply one huge spring, and was for years 

 famous for the vast number and excellent flavor of the 

 trout it contained. It abounds with the natural food of 

 trout, with insects, shrimp andJarvae of water flies, and 

 in the spring and even in winter the surface is covered, 

 with the phrygomidae and ephemeridae as they issue forth 

 in perfect form. The ground around the house is well 

 adapted for constructing ponds, as there is at this spot a 

 fall of four feet or thereabouts. The house itself is 

 cheaply constructed of hemlock boards, and is fifty feet 

 long by twenty feet wide, and is one and a half stories 

 high. There is no attempt at ornament or elegance, and it 

 is probably the plainest while the most efiicient hatching 

 house in the world. In it have been hatched in one 

 season two million and a half of whitefisl^, two million 

 salmon-trout, and one million and a half of brook trout 

 together with several hundred thousand salmon, these 

 figures not being taken by estimate but by actual count. 



