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which they distinguished it by another name, something like 

 onnenook. But without this testimony, I was assured by 

 Mr. Boardman that it is only of late years that the silvery 

 salmon trout has been repelled to its present situation ; indeed, 

 he recollects full well the time when it and the salmon fre- 

 quented the St. Croix River, from its mouth] to its sources. 

 Thus the fact that both inhabited the same region, within 

 the influence of the tideway of the Bay of Fundy, closes the 

 dwarfed salmon argument, to which further reference need 

 scarcely be made.* 



After a pleasant row through these two lakes, where broods 

 of wild ducks kept my gun in constant requisition, we dis- 

 embarked at the debouchure of Grand Lake stream, and 

 pitched our tent under the trees, where the unfortunate Pro- 

 fessor spent a night of intense torment from mosquitoes. I 

 don't know exactly why these pests do occasionally single out 

 certain persons in preference to others, but, although I have 

 had very good cause to complain in common with others, 

 I must say neither black fly, sand .fly, nor mosquito managed 

 to make me so miserable as many of my companions. Indeed, 

 on the following morning, after breakfast, whilst the Indian 



* Dr. Gunther, in his Catalogue of the Salmonidae in the British Museum, 

 says : "The question whether any of the migratory species can be retained in 

 fresh water, and finally accommodate itself to a permanent sojourn therein, 

 must be negatived for the present. Several instances of successful expe- 

 riments made for this purpose have been brought forward ; but all these 

 accounts are open to serious doubts, inasmuch as they do not afford us 

 sufficient proof that the young fish introduced into ponds were really 

 young migratory salmonoids, or that the full-grown specimens were iden- 

 tical with those introduced, and not hybrids or non-migratory trout of a 

 somewhat altered appearance in consequence of the change of their 

 locality. We have seen the experiment tried at two places in South 

 Wales, by the Rev. Augustus Morgan and by W. Peel, Esq., of Taliaris, 

 and in both cases the salmon and the pure sewin died when not allowed to 

 return to the sea. However, the latter gentleman pointed out to me that 

 the hybrid fishes from the sewin and the trout survived the experiment, 

 and continue to grow in a pond perfectly shut up from communication 

 with the sea. In that locality neither these hybrids nor the trout spawn." 



