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them as appertaining to the outer world. I was greatly 

 amused by their appearances. There were many young men 

 among them who displayed great taste in the arrangement 

 of their hair ; and some of the squaws had heads of locks 

 worth diamonds, and for which many of our belles would 

 swap their eye-teeth, of best manufacture, for similar heads 

 of natural growth. 



On our arrival at the mouth of the river, the dogs came 

 from some thirty cabins to welcome us. They were of all 

 kinds, sizes, and colors, and their salutations were most wel- 

 come. The sight and hospitable bark of our own kind of 

 dogs gladdened our eyes and ears, producing a charming ef- 

 fect. Having landed and become hospitably housed at the 

 quarters of the government agent, while our guides attended 

 to landing our luggage and cutting fir-boughs for our beds, 

 we jointed our trout-rods, and walked a short distance from 

 the cabin to the sandy shore of the river, where, within thir- 

 ty minutes, we took over fifty sea trout averaging a pound 

 each. I frequently fastened two at a time on the same cast 

 of flies with which I had last fished on Long Island. 



SECTION TENTH. 



THE SILVER OE SEA TEOUT. 



This fish mhabits for nearly half the year the tidal waters 

 of the streams in Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. 

 It is also taken in the estuaries of rivers in Maine, Massachu- 

 setts, and Long Island. Being aware of the high authorities 

 which assert this to be a distinct family of the Salmo genus, 

 I must beg humbly to dissent; and from the following de- 

 scription I invite anglers to decide for themselves whether 

 the sea trout is not the Salmo fontinalis, or brook trout com- 

 mon to the streams of the northern part of North America. 

 The sea trout is similar to the brook trout in all facial pecu- 

 liarities. It is shaped like the brook trout ; the vermiculate 

 marks on the back and above the lateral line are like those 

 of the brook trout ; its vermilion, white, and amber dots are 



