12 GENERAL REMARKS. 



journeys, lie is readily transported from place to 

 place. The time will soon come when the worthless 

 yellow perch will be snp})lanted by his noble con- 

 gener. 



He has been imported even into that semi-detached 

 point of New England, Cape Cod, and thrives won- 

 derfully in Lake Mahopac, adding much to the at- 

 tractions of that favorite watering-place of fashion- 

 jaded New Yorkers, and is being generally distri- 

 buted among his eastern friends. If not ejcposed to 

 a hot sun, he may be carried a long distance out of 

 water, and will often revive when apparently the 

 last spark of vitality is extinct. But his natural home 

 is north and west of the Middle and Eastern States ; 

 there his name is legion, his fame deservedly great, 

 and he may be almost said to be the one game fish. 



It is true that among epicures the famous white 

 fish of Lakes Huron and Suj^erior, which is also 

 found in a more flabby condition in Erie and Onta- 

 rio, ranks before either the black bass or the pike- 

 perch ; but as he is deceived by neither decoy nor 

 bait, he is not worthy of the fisherman's regard. 

 To be tasted in perfection, the white fish must be 

 eaten fresh from the rapids of Lake Superior, where, 

 lying in the eddy below some immovable rock, he is 

 taken by the sharp-eyed Indian in the long-handled 

 net from out the foaming water, brought immedi- 

 ately to land, cooked and placed steammg hot upon 

 the table before he has lost the delicious freshness 

 of his native element. 



The black bass, however, is in the west what the 



