GENERAL DESCRIPTION 



from the Gulf of Mexico to the sub-Arctic regions. 

 In his capacious pouch he will carry quantities of as- 

 sorted fish, alive, over long distances, often sitting down 

 beside some lake or pond to feed upon his catch, and 

 spilling the overplus into the water. 



In current years, human agency is scattering broad- 

 cast, populating new streams or rehabilitating those 

 which have become barren. Indeed, the presence of 

 trout in a large majority of amorphous locations can 

 be historically accounted for. For instance, s. fontinalis^ 

 which is now diffused all over the Appalachian Ridge 

 in Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and 

 even in Northeastern Georgia, often attaining a weight 

 of two pounds, was introduced by General Wade 

 Hampton some fifty years ago, and only last summer 

 I saw him at Sapphire, at the age of eighty-seven, en- 

 joying the fruits of his providential forethought. The 

 speckled trout of Castalia, O., were planted by the 

 club which appropriated that famous spring and con- 

 verted it into a fruitful stream a quarter of a century 

 back. The monster rainbow trout (j. iridius), of 

 Macon County, N. C, were planted at Highlands 

 twenty years ago by Henry Stewart, of New Jersey, 

 and the Sapphire Lake trout, of the same species, by 

 the Toxaway Company, who are chiefly Pittsburg 

 gentlemen. Some of these introduced rainbow trout 

 have been caught weighing five pounds, and even 

 more. The rainbow trout of Cumberland County, in 

 central North Carolina, were planted at my request by 



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