Show the strength of a trout we sat foar an boor cr more on the eist bank of the at Ro ekland and watched the of that celebrated river passing over the dam which is nearly three feet high with about a 4 inch volume of water pouring over it the trout ranged in size from ten to eighteen inches and during the time w eat there at least twenty managed to get over in many instances a first attempt failed owing however more to an apparent want of judgment or perhaps of experience than from lack of physical ability in the fash to accomplish the feat the smaller fish as a rule failing to get over in tho first effort sut few of the larger fish made a clean jump into the smooth water above the apron of the dam most of them passed perpendicularly ap the falling waters sandwith and with apparent ease these fish were enabled to swim straight up this downpour of the waters by the great muscular power they possessed there was no trick no sleight of hand about it it was pure strength of body which is evidently centered in the peduncle or tail and the tail fin they actually sculled their bodies ap this comparatively dense mass of water the query naturally arises if a 10 inch trout can swim up such a fall what is the capacity of a salmon of forty inches under similar ican angler |