of ice.

    t in alden pickerel, one weighing seven

    pounds -- to say noth

    great velocity,  eight pounds

    because  see s, some of each weighing

    over two pounds, shiners, chivins or roach (Leuciscus pulchellus), a

    very few breams, and a couple of eels, one weighing four pounds -- I

    am ticular because t of a fiss only

    title to fame, and the only eels I have heard of here; --

    also, I  recollection of a little fish some five inches

    long,  dace-like in

    its cer, s to

    fable.  Nevert very fertile in fiss

    pickerel, t abundant, are its c.  I

    one time lying on t least t

    kinds: a long and seel-colored, most like t

    in t golden kind, ions and

    remarkably deep, w common her,

    golden-colored, and s, but peppered on the sides

    s, intermixed

    blood-red ones, very mucrout.  the specific name

    reticulatus  apply to t status rather.

    their size

    promises.  ts, and perche

    fis this pond, are much cleaner, handsomer, and

    firmer-fles othe

    er is purer, and tinguishem.

    Probably many ics ies of some of

    tortoises, and a few

    mussels in it; muskrats and minks leave traces about it, and

    occasionally a travelling mud-turtle visits it.  Sometimes, when I

    pus in turbed a great mud-turtle

    .  Ducks and

    geese frequent it in te-bellied swallows

    (, and ts (totanus

    macularius) quot;teete