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weather good, but before morning it rained and blow hard from the east. Saturday, 12th: We came up to Greenport 

 Ln the wind and rain ; in p. m. it cleared oft' and I went home. Monday, Uth : We weut down in Gardiner's Bay and 

 thru up into Noyack Bay, where we found plenty of fish ; we caught 187,200, and arrived at the Miamogue Works at 4 

 o'clock p. m. ; pleasant. Tuesday, 15th : We went up bay again, and caught in Noyack Bay and Little Peconic Bay 232,000 

 fish, which was all we could put on, and reached the Miamogue Works at G o'clock p. m. ; fine day. Wednesday, IGth : 

 We went up in Little Pecouic Bay ; caught 87,200 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; pleasant day, but we 

 had a hard thunder shower just at night, and it rained nearly all night. Thursday, l~th : Went up bay, but the wind 

 was NW. and the fish would not show ; one of the men was taken sick, and we took him to Greenport and looked up 

 a man to take his place, and as the day was so far spent we concluded not to go out again. Friday, 18(/i : We went up 

 bay and then down bay, and caught but 20,000 fish, which we took in to the Miamoguo Works ; weather pleasant. 

 Saturday, 19th: Went out in Gardiner's Bay, but caught no fish; so went to Greenport and I went home; fine day. 

 Monday, 21st: We went tip sound as far as Luce's Landing ; caught 53,000 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; 

 weather continues fine. Tuesday, 22d: Went in the sound and went west as far as Cold Spring, where we stopped; 

 pleasant ; wind SW. Wednesday, 23d: Went out in the sound and east ; we found some figh off Mattituck, and caught 

 511,000, which we took to the Miamogue Works ; weather fine. Thursday, 24//t : We went up sound as far as Faulklaud 

 Island ; caught 126,400 fish, and arrived at the Miamogue Works at 9 o'clock p. m. ; weather fine. Friday, 25th : Went 

 up sound as far as New Haven ; the wind breezed up from the east, so we went in and came to anchor behind the light 

 in the mouth of New Haven Harbor. Saturday, 26th: Wind east aud stormy ; we came out and came to Greenport. 

 Monday, 2Sth: Went up sound, and off Faulkland Island caught 120,600 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; 

 vi ry fine day. Tuesday, 29lh : We went up sound ; caught off Faulkland Island 9, GOO fish ; they did not appear to bo 

 very plenty to-day ; we took them to the oil works ; very warm. Wednesday, 30th : Went up sound ; caught just east 

 of Horton's Point 37,600 fish ; arrived in to the Miamogue Works at G o'clock p. m. ; a warm day. Thursday, 31f : Went 

 up sound ; caught. 57,600 fish just west of Horton's Point, and took them to the Miamogue Works ; pleasant day. 



August 1st, Friday : It was foggy in the morning aud we had to grope our way along through the gut and up 

 sound, running slow so as not to run any vessels down ; one of the steamers ran into a schooner just after going 

 through the gut, but did not do much damage ; the fog soon lit up and we caught 02,000 fish near Faulkland Island, 

 which we took to the Miamogue Works ; pleasant after the fog lifted. Saturday, 2d : Did not fish ; a very, very warm 

 day. Monday, 4th: We went up sound as far as New Haven ; caught 102,400 fish, which we took down to the Mia- 

 mogue Works ; weather very fine. Tuesday, 5th : Went up sound as far as Charles Island ; caught 60,000 fish, which 

 we took to the works ; fine. Wednesday, tith : We went up to Greeuport to fix the lioiler. Thursday, ~th : Went out in 

 the morning and the boiler commenced to leak, so we went to New London and had a soft patch put on. Friday, 

 8th : We came out in the morning aud started west in the sound, but the wind was east and commenced to storm, so 

 we came to Greenport. Saturday, Slh: Went out in the bay in a. ru.; saw no fish, so went into the fish works and 

 coaled up, and to Greeuport; thus ends the week. Monday, llth : Went up sound as far as Stratford Point ; caught 

 a few fisli just at night and went into Black Rock aud anchored ; fine day. Tuesday, 12th : Fished off Stratford until 

 noon, then started for the Miamogue Works ; arrived just before sundown ; had 129,600 fish ; weather continues fine. 

 Wednesday, 13th : We went up sound ; the wind blew quite fresh SW. ; we went in behind Norwalk Islands and came 

 to anchor. Thursday, 14th : Went out in the sound; caught a few fish off South Port, and at night, as we did not 

 have enough to come down with, we went into Bridgeport; fine. Friday, 15th : Went out in the sound and went 

 east and saw some fish, and we set around them four different bunches on our way down, and caught not a single 

 one ; they went under the seine ; divers we call them ; we took to the works what we caught the day before, 16,800 

 fish ; weather fine. Saturday, IGth : An east storm ; we lay in Greenport. Monday, ISth : Went out in Gardiner's Bay 

 and made one set, but caught none; it stormed hard nearly all day, and at night I went up to Greenport, and before 

 we arrived at the wharf it was blowing a gale from the NE. ; we made fast to the wharf, using all the lines we 

 had, and oh ! how it did blow ; during the night there were about twenty fishing yachts and sloops dragged and went 

 ashore, and two or three steamers had a pretty hard time; one little smack anchored off Bostwick, Gardiner's Island, 

 foundered, and two men that were in her were drowned ; the wind, some time in the night, shifted to NNW. ; that 

 was when it blew the hardest. Tuesday, 19lh : Wind blew quite hard NW. ; we did not go out; some of the steamers 

 went down bay and towed up disabled yachts and sloops some with bowsprit gone, some with boom or mast broken, 

 &c. Wtdntsday, 20lh: We weut below Gardiner's Island; caught 169,200 fish, which we took to the Miamogue 

 Works; fine. Thursday, 21st: We caught just east of Gardiner's Point 59,200 fish, which we took to the Miamogue 

 Works ; fine. Friday, 22d : We hauled out the William Floyd on the railways, to paint and fix the condenser, and we 

 took the seine in the lot to put some new corks on the bunt; wind blew strong SW. Saturday, 23d: We saw the 

 scull race in a. m. ; I went home in p. m. Monday, 25th : We went down below Gardiner's Island and as far as Fort 

 Pond; caught 41,600 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; wind east. Tuesday, 26th: The wind was east and 

 it was storming ; we lay in Greeuport. Wednesday, 27th : The wind continued to blow east ; did not fish. Thursday, 

 28<7c We went up in Peconic Bay in a. m., but saw no fish, so we came back to Greenport. Friday, 29th: We went 

 down in Gardiner's Bay; made four sets; caught 27,200 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; pleasant day. 

 Saturday, 301h: We did not fish; I went home. 



September 1st, Monday: We went up sound as far as Mattituck, where we succeeded in catching 141,200 fish, and 

 arrived at the Miamogue Works at 8 o'clock p. m. ; weather pleasant. Tuesday, 2d : Went up sound, and off Stratford 

 we caught three small sets, and then weut in to Bridgeport for the night; pleasant day. Wednesday, 3d: We went 

 out in the sound in the morning and caught a good haul of fish off South Port ; then the wind breezed up from the 

 east and we started down sound; we arrived at the Miamogue Works at 4 o'clock p. m. ; had 113,600 fish. Thurs- 

 day, 4th : It was foggy in the morning, and we did not start out until 10 o'clock a. m. ; then we went up in Little 



