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though stony and shallow in places. The minnows peculiar to 
this stream are beautiful bright silvery species, and on account 
of the conspicuous black spot at the base of the tail known locally 
as spot-tails. Most of the fishes we found were active, though 
weak little forms, the darters and sculpins being few. 
About Atlanta one comes in contact with a number of interesting 
headwater streams, like those of the Chatahoochee to the north 
and west, or the watercourses flowing across the Coastal Plain 
into the Atlantic. Most settlements near the city deposit their 
sewage in the near-by streams, so that many are now in various 
stages of pollution and the fishes have largely if not entirely dis- 
appeared. In a mill-pond a few miles distant from the city, inter- 
esting pond conditions have developed. A patch of the arrow 
leaf (Sagittaria ) , still with some bloom, was growing in a few places 
along the shores. Roach, catfish, bream, tadpoles of various 
species, and great numbers of crawfish, were met with, though all 
pale or very dull in color. 
The headwaters of the Oconee River near Lula comprise chiefly 
a small brook, cold and spring-fed. This flows through the gently 
rolling country over bottom-lands composed chiefly of gravel and 
red clay. It is often difficult to approach, due to thickets and 
dense areas of bushes and shrubs. Great tracts of pine forest, 
more or less clear and open, render approach in other sections 
easy. Running over the pine-needles or along fallen tree- trunks 
we found a few pine-tree lizards. Along the brooks the only frog 
seen was the spring-frog. The usual fishes were great numbers of 
the little red-chub, and a beautiful little darter largely blue-green 
in color. The streams tributary to the upper waters of the Savannah 
River basin, like those of Toccoa Creek, closely resembled the 
Oconee. They traversed more mountainous sections and usually 
had more rapid rocky tributaries. Often these little streams were 
of rapid cold water, flowing down over boulders and large rocky 
ledges with occasional waterfalls. Quantities of fish, all free- 
swimmers, as horny-heads, red-chubs, etc. were found here. 
In the Santee Basin, the upper Saluda River, near Piedmont, 
South Carolina, is a great muddy trough, with steep banks, mostly 
well overgrown. The river fishermen here capture quantities of 
the channel species, as suckers, the so called “white-carp” or carp- 
suckers, cats, eels, chubs, various sunfish, yellow-perch, etc., 
