THE LAKE WHITE FISH. 
THE LAKE WHITE FISHES, AND THE SMELTS. 
Of venison Goldsmith may wittily sing, 
A very fine haunch is a very fine thing ; 
And Burns, in his tuneful and exquisite way, 
The charms of a smoky Scotch haggis display ; 
But ’tis often much harder to eat than descant. 
And a poet may praise what a poet may want; 
Less doubt there shall be ’twixt my Muse and my dish 
While her powers, I invoke in the praise of White Fish. 
Henry R. Schoolcraft. 
HP HE White-fish of the Great Lakes, Coregonus clupeiformis is a well 
^ known fish which has numerous representatives in the lakes of the 
Great West, all of which will necessarily come into prominence as the 
country becomes more densely populated, and all of which will doubt¬ 
less in time come under the attention of the fish culturist, though none 
of them are of any especial interest to the angler. 
Coregonus clupeiformis (Mitchill) Milner, as has been said, is the most 
important of its family. It inhabits the Great Lakes and British America, 
and is replaced in Alaska by C. Richardsonii. This species has been 
artificially reared, and widely distributed beyond seas, and is one of the 
most important market fishes of the Upper Mississippi Valley. 
Next in rank is the Coregoneus Artedi almost universally known as the 
“Lake Herring.” The name “Cisco” is also often applied to it, 
especially about the smaller lakes, and in many regions also the name 
