SALMON I.OCAI.ITIKS. £93 



SALMON FISHING. 



Ok all till' piscatory sports, this is the first and tiiicst ; and 

 althuugh it cannot now he pursued hy the American angler 

 except at the expense of some not inconsidcrahic time and 

 trouhlc, still there is no land on eartli in uhieh it exists in such 

 perfection as in this. 



Time was, wlu-n e\ery river eastward of the Capes of the 

 Delaware swarmed with this noble tish, hut, year afti-r year, 

 like the Red Indian, they ha\i' passed farther and farther from 

 the sphere of the encroaching white man's boasted ci\ ilisation, 

 and perhaps will also ere long be lost from the natural world of 

 this era. 



The Kennebec is now the ejistern limit of the Salmon's range, 

 and in that bright and limpid river he is yearly waxing Iiss and 

 less fre<iuent. 



In the I'enob.HCot, even to this day, he al)ounds ; but for some 

 singular a«d inexplicable reason, whether it be from the .saw- 

 dusty turbidnes-s of its lower waters, or from some esjwcial habit 

 of the fish, it IS rarely t»r never known to take the bait or the 

 tly, \uthni ven.' numy nules of the mouth of that grand and 

 inijKrtuous stream. 



