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IMMENSE NEST OF EELS IN CAVE A stone worker who helped build the mill dam on the Hudson at Cohoes N Y years ago relates that one of the blasts opened a cave in which mil ¬ lions of eels were imprisoned The eels apparently worked up through small crevices into the rocky cave and were trapped Unable to find their way out they bred there by thousands When the blast opened the cnve a great moving mass of eels came tumbling out and the river from ank to bank was alive with them The people in the vicinity carried away wagon loads of eels and still vast numbers of the fish swam down the river toward the sea The eel is a fresh water fish which goes to the sea to spawn Still they are found many hundreds of miles up rivers far from salt water
