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growth of submerged water weed with several pretty patches of 
pickerel weed standing in adjacent shoals. Here the bottom is deep 
and muddy and here bullheads, sunfish and horned dace abound and 
small boys angle for them or catch the smaller of them in wire 
minnow traps. Schools of the red-bellied minnow may be seen 
about the edge of the beds of vegetation or darting into the 
shadow of the few great rocks that lie here. 
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Map 2 The vicinity of Old Forge 
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At the south end of the pond, where a spring is said to enter 
below the water line, there is much angling for speckled trout, but 
few trout are taken there, and such as I saw taken were small and 
lean. Some of the coves that receive spring brooks entering from 
the south farther up the channel yielded an occasional fine string of 
speckled trout. One of these coves in which we did considerable 
collecting, about a mile eastward from Old Forge on the south 
side of the channel is the one which drains the western of the twin 
ponds. Growing upon the submerged hemlock tops in this cove 
were some of the most remarkable growths of fresh water sponges 
that I ever saw. Great masses [pl. 9, fig. 2] varying between 
crustaceous and columnar, of a vivid green color, were to be seen 
