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vited guests, the names of tUe sportsmen on duty, the 

 number and size of tlie fish, &c. and any other interest- 

 ing information, that the same may be duly entered on 

 the records of State. 



Had such a requisition been made and in former times 

 attended to, some useful information and minutes now 

 forever lost, would have been transmitted to us. We 

 might have instituted a comparison between the size, spe- 

 cies and quantity taken in the primitive days of the Com- 

 pany, and so for periods of time, down to the present day. 

 It would probably appear, that whilst we have ingeniously 

 improved in the methods of taking fish, the fish are less 

 abundant than formerly in the river. That is the admit- 

 ted case since the erection of the dam, barring the free 

 passage of the migratory race of the waters. 



May 1st 1825. This annual festive meeting in the 

 month of flowers, was introdued with all the genial mild- 

 ness of welcome spring, and induced a company of 25 

 gentlemen to congregate at the Castle. 



According to ancient custom, the dining hall was de- 

 corated early in the day, with the pride of the fields and 

 adjacent woods, the flower of varied hue and fragrance, 

 and the leafy budding branch, beautiful emblems of the 

 vernal year. 



The fishermen who had judiciously sallied out at early 

 dawn, leturned from their first excursion in the season 

 about noon, with a plentiful assortment of the finny tribe 

 in their baskets, the prized white perch predominated. 



