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three rivers in Florida, the St. John, the Tomoka, and 

 Spruce creek, I find them to be of about the average 

 size of the same species in the western waters, viz., from 

 two to three pounds ; and although they may grow 

 larger here than in the western lakes and rivers, yet I 

 am inclined to think that those weighing from fifteen to 

 twenty pounds, said to have been taken here, were esti 

 mated rather than weighed. 



S. C. CLARKE. 



