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that off-shore wind creates an enormons overtow ; aod, as it does not 

 lower the surface of the water in the ocean, the cold water from the 

 depths below must taUe the place of the surface water. Under such 

 conditions as I have just described, go to our ocean beach from Cape 

 Florida to north of Tupiter Inlet, and it will be found covered with fish 

 of all kinds, except such as are known as surface fish, or those that live 

 near tbe surface. They are all, icithotit exception^ rock or bottom fish; 

 and many, judging- from their looks, must have come from a great depth. 

 What is it that brings them to the shore if they are nut paralyzed by 

 the cold water I It is after such a time as this that I think I can supply 

 you with a great many kinds of fish new to science. I have seen many 

 kinds that I never heard of and had no names for. 

 BiscAYNE Bay, Miami, Fla., JSFovember 24, 1883. 



I have the i)leasure of informing you that I have sent the whale's jaw, 

 through the kindness of Mr. Colonns, of the Coast Survey. I was un- 

 able to procure any bluefish spawn the past winter, but in a conversa- 

 tion with Mr. Colouna, who has wintered on Lake Worth, he tells me 

 that they have caught with a seine large quantities of roe bluefish, eat- 

 ing the roe. It is a fact worthy of notice that of the large quantities 

 taken, trolling with hook, none had roe, and the seine only developed 

 the fact that there were not any roe bluefish. I am located so far from 

 what seems to be their favorite ground that 1 cannot do much, but if I 

 should be transferred to the Jupiter Life-Saving Station, when built, I 

 should be better able to note their habits, &c. 



February 26, trolling for Spanish mackerel, I caught seven; weight of 

 the seven, 1.5 pounds ; found spawn in them about half grown. Feb- 

 ruary 27, I caught two Spanish mackerel, and found spawn about the 

 same size as those caught the day before. March 8, saw large schools 

 of young bluefish, about one month old, moving south. 



Miami, Fla., April 7, 1884. 



143.— CHARACTER OF TIfK CARP IIVTROfl>l CED BV CAPT. HENRY 



ROBI.'>SO.\ ABOLT ISaO. 



By JOSEPH O. KEDDIKO. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F, Baird.] 



I inclose a communication from Mr. O'Meara, of Santa Eosa, Cal., to 

 the San Francisco Bulletin. Under date of March 4, 1884, he says : 



"I first saw French carj) in the autumn of 1837. The fish were in 

 the artificial fish-ponds of Capt. Henry Robinson, of Newburg, N. Y. 



''Cajitain Robinson commanded one of the five lines of packet ships 

 which regulaily traded between New York and Havre, and had accu- 

 mulated a fortune. His country seat at Kewbuig wa« a splendid es- 



