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Their visits are like those of angels, few and far between. 

 The King Fish, the Lafayette, the Blue Fish, nay, even those 

 scaly customers, the Prawn and the Lobster, will swarm this 

 year, disappear entirely the next, and after an absence, longer, 

 perhaps, than Jacob's double courtship, will again gladden the 

 hearts of their lovers by returning in numbers innumerable. 



In New York harbour, the flats from Bergen Point to Jersey 

 City, within the fortified islands, and the big rock called Black 

 Tom, and opposite Communipaw, are the best waters for the 

 King Fish. But in the Passaic Bay, and off Elizabethtown 

 Point, and also in the lagoons of Long Island, they are taken 

 often in great numbers. 



May they soon return to us as thickly as of yore, and remain 

 as long as it suiteth them ! They shall be welcome. 



