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always been excellent, and is probably so still, although the shad 

 fishers, who of late years have been using a seine near Lake Mun- 

 roe, have injured the fishing to some extent. Bass have been taken 

 from Lake Jessop which weighed over thirteen pounds, and there is 

 a record of one being caught in a small lake in Northern Florida 

 which weighed nineteen pounds. Of course these are the Large- 

 mouthed Black Bass, and not its Northern congener, the small-mouthed 

 species. 



The St. John's River is usually navigable as far as Salt Lake, but 

 above that it is often choked with floating water plants. Occasion- 

 ally a small boat can go nearly to Lake Washington, but beyond 



ROBIN AND PRINCE. 



Lake Poinset it is difficult to force a passage through the water 

 plants, which are so rarely disturbed that they grow in a mass very 

 difficult to penetrate. 



Above Lake Jessop, on the prairies bordering the river, snipe 

 shooting is particularly good at some seasons, and all through the 

 country between St. John's River and the Indian River quail and 

 snipe are abundant in the season. A few ducks may nearly always 



