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This happens even with the Sturgeons and Herrings 

 of the Ohio, which are in other countries periodical 

 fishes, travelling annually from the sea to the rivers 

 in the spring, and from the rivers to the sea in the 

 fall. 



Fishes are very abundant in the Ohio, and are 

 taken sometimes by thousands with the seines : some 

 of them are salted ; but not so many as in the great 

 lakes. In Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, &c. fish 

 always meets a good market, and sells often higher 

 than meat ; but at a distance from those towns you 

 may buy the best fish at the rate of one or two cents 

 the pound. It affords excellent food, and, if not 

 equal to the best sea fish, it comes very near it, 

 being much above the common river fish of Europe: 

 the most delicate fishes are the Salmon-perch, the 

 Bubbler, the Buffaloe-fish, the Sturgeons, the Cat- 

 fishes, &c. It is not unusual to meet such fishes of 

 the weight of thirty to one hundred pounds, and 

 some monstrous ones are occasionally caught, of 

 double that weight. The most usual manners of 

 catching fish in the Ohio are, with seines or harpoons 

 at night and in shallow water, with boats carrying a 

 light, or with the hooks and lines, and even with 

 baskets. 



I am sorry to be compelled to delay the publication 

 of my figures of all the fishes now described : these 

 delineations shall appear at another period. 



To facilitate the knowledge of the streams men- 

 tioned, I prefix a physical description of the Ohio 

 and its principal branches. 



Lexington, Kentucky, x^-^th November, 1819. 



