Tin: (AIM' IN Tin: in dsun. liH) 



except as an omaiiunial fish, to be kci)t in garden tanks and 

 fonntains ; bnt the other being nineh, though 1 must confess in 

 my opinion untlrsfrvvdty, esteenied in Kuiope, and having been 

 deemed wortliy of legishitive enactments for his protection l)y 

 the State of New \ork, I >h;ill proceed to (h'seril)e as a species, 

 which, within a year or two at the farthest, will come within 

 the American angler's list of game. 



The mode of this fish's introduction into Aincriean waters is 

 as follows: — Cai)tain Hobiiison, who has a tine place iiniiie- 

 diately on the banks ot the Hudson liver, containing some line 

 Hsli-ponds, between Newbiu"gh ami New Windsor, imported 

 some years since a (jnantity of ("arp at considerable expense, 

 I believe from Holland, where the species is very abundant and 

 very tine in cpiality. His ponds were soon admirably stocked; 

 but in process of time a heavy freshet carried away his dams 

 and tlood-gatcs, and a very large proportion of his Carj) escaped 

 into the Hudson, This fact being represented to the legis- 

 hiture of the State, a penal enactment was passed, heavily 

 mulcting any person w jio should lake any one of these Hudson 

 KivcrCarp, at any seas()n or under any circumstances until after 

 the expiration of five years from the passing of the net. 



The provisions of this bill have been striitly enforced: several 

 |>cr8ons have been fined, and the lish is now extremely abundant. 



I cannot here, in relating these circumstances, control myself, 

 but must invoke the contempt and indignation of (?verv gentle 

 sportsman, ever)' rea.sonablc thinking man, upon the heads of 

 that ignorant, motley, and dfstructivf assemblage, which is 

 entitled the Senate and AsM-mbly of New ^ Ork. Tor the last 

 fifteen years not r session lia.s pn-sscd without the strenuous iind 



