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water ; whence their colours are less brilliant, and their flesh 

 inferior in flavour. 



In the State of New York they are of unrivalled excellence, 

 and are found in vast numbers, especially in the streams of the 

 south side of Long Island, in the lakes and rivers of the north- 

 eastern counties which debouch into the basin of the St. Law- 

 rence, and in all the streams of the south-western tier of counties 

 which find their way southwardly into the Delaware, the Sus- 

 quehana, and the Alleghany. 



All the waters of Northern and Western Pennsylvania are 

 likewise admirably stocked with this delicious and game fish, 

 nor has any one need to seek better sport than he can find at 

 Carman^s or Snedecor's on Long Island. In the Marshpee 

 river, on Cape Cod, famous as being the favourite fishing-ground 

 of that good sportsman and great statesman, Daniel Webster ; 

 in the Callikoon and Beaverkill on the east, and the fine Penn- 

 sylvanian streams on the west of the Delaware ; in the net- work 

 of lakes and rivers which renders Hamilton County in New 

 York the angler's earthly paradise, or in the swift Canadian 

 streams which swell the St. Lawrence, from the Michigan west- 

 ward to the Sault St. Marie, and upward to the head of Lake 

 Superior, sport is certain. 



The implements of the Trout-fisher are similar except in size 

 and power, to those used in the capture of the Salmon ; but as 

 less strength is necessary to subdue, so is, perhaps, even greater 

 delicacy requisite to ensnare him. 



The Trout-rod should be twelve feet long, and as pliant, 

 almost, as a coach- whip, equally bending from the butt to the 

 tip. It should be composed of hickory, lancewood, and bamboo. 



