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to be credited, assures us that he cannot per- 

 ceive the least possible difference between the 

 turbot of this country and that taken on the Brit- 

 ish shores ; and the testimony of an intelligent 

 fisherman, residing on Lovell's Island, fully cor- 

 roborates the statement of the gentleman refer- 

 red to. 



William Ladd, Esq. of Maine, the distinguish- 

 ed advocate of the Peace society, informed us that 

 when the English fleet visited Boston, and held 

 possession of the town, in the year 1775-6, the 

 officers were bountifully supplied with turbot, 

 w^hich were caught in the neighborhood of the 

 outer harbor. He furtlier remarked, that about all 

 they did, while here, was to eat them ! 



Mr Parker, the conductor of the Marine Tele- 

 graph, mentioned, in the course of conversation, 

 that many years ago, Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin 

 brought out to this country a traul net, such as are 

 used on the coast of Holland for taking sole for the 

 London markets, with which he succeeded in 

 capturing that delightful fish, in Ipswich Bay, 

 which was not before supposed to exist here. Be- 

 ing a flat fish, destitute of an air-bladder, they 

 swim close to the bottom, and rarely bite at the 

 hook. Another gentleman, however, thinks this 

 is a mistake — for he assures us that a traul net 

 was dragged by the frigate Constitution, along a 



