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measures from a yard to a yard and a half long. 

 The two sides of this eccentric fish are marked with 

 broad black stripes, arranged in transverse lines 

 alternating with ribands of gold and silver scales. 



Some Charleston planters assured me that in one 

 season they caught 12,000 drumming fish, which 

 they salted and distributed among the poor of the 

 country. 



The devil or angel fish is another inhabitant of 

 the American waters, and should have a chapter to 

 himself. 



The basse is one of the most succulent fish known. 

 He varies in size from twenty to thirty inches in 

 length, and his colour is iridescent from head to tail. 

 He is a kind of sea perch, of an admirable form, and 

 extremely active. Moreover, he is the most ravenous 

 fish of that kind known. 



Then, the musician fish. The Sire7is of the 

 ancients are not mythical, after all. I myself have 

 touched and even eaten (in spite of tlie warning 

 representations of a black) one of these harmonious 

 mullets, and suffered no inconvenience from it. 



One day, as I was returning to Talahassee from a 

 hunting excursion in Florida, we were rowing along 

 by the shore about sunset, when suddenly a strange, 

 grave, and prolonged sound struck my ears. At 

 first I thought it must be a drone, or fly of extra- 

 ordinary magnitude ; but, seeing nothing, I ques- 

 tioned ray guide as to what it could be. 



