LONG ISLAND Ti;"i r I'l^iiiNu. 3:57 



other varieties, with whicli most l)ot)ks on lly-fishinj; ahoinid, 

 iistjiif ml ntmscdui : for 1 uin sutisfinl that sueh (h'scriptioiis 

 muNt he entirely imsatisfaetory and useless to the fishennaii, 

 who should attempt to tie Hies hy their aid, without other and 

 more praetienl instruetion ; and they an- >o well known to all 

 anj;lers, ami to i\ll taekle-makers, hy their names, that they eaii 

 he reaulily ami uiimistakeahly ordered hy letter, ami olitaiurd at. 

 any distanee, tVon» any of the lar;xe eities. 



In pro-^ress (jf this >ul)ji'et, I take the lihrily of (lUotiiij,', from 

 l>r. Ihtluim's very heautiful edition of Walton's Angler, the 

 tollowin^ paper, ^\ hii'h «as drawn up ami eontrihutcd to that 

 work hy my.selt", on the Trout-hshing of Loii}^ Island, at the 

 request of the aeeomplislu-d author. It eoutains everything 

 that 1 know or could collect at that time on this hranch of the 

 suhjcct ; and as I rest well aissured that my horrowiu;; it will in 

 nowise injure or interfere with thait heautilul and admirahle 

 work, while I feel that it would he useless and ahsurd to rc-word 

 the same ideas and opinions, and so reiidrr it pseudo-original, I 

 do not hesitate to extract it entire: — 



" 'I'lu- principal distinctions that strike the careful ohservcr 

 hctween the Trout of Long Island, or, indeed, I might say North 

 America iu general, and thost- of tlu' British Isles, is, first, th«- 

 great uniformity of size on the part of the former, which rarely 

 exceed two or three |K)und» in weight, and never, so far as 1 

 liave Ihhmi ahle to ascertain, fivt- or six ; and, secondly, the fact 

 that in the Inited States, Trout are never taken iu the hirgi* 

 rivers, or, if ever, so rarely as to prove the rule hy the womhr 

 arising from the exception. 



" On Long Island there are some half dozen instances on 



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