APPENDIX.-(A.) 



THE FISH AND FISHING 



OF NORTH AMERICA. 



A SORT of half promise, made in the earlier portion of this 

 work, induces me to add a few words, under this head, though 

 they will be so brief and of so general a nature as to come more 

 befittingly under the form of an Appendix, than into the body 

 of the work itself. 



In Field Sports, Fishing cannot properly be included, although 

 it is so decidedly a branch of Sportsmanship that it would scarcely 

 be proper to pass it over without some notice ; and yet to so 

 brief a space must my remarks be limited, that anything more 

 than a few of the most passing hints, would be worse than ab- 

 surd, and impertinent. 



The Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of 

 North America is, to say the least, not inferior to the Shooting 

 and Hunting ; more especially in the Northern and Eastern Dis- 

 tricts of both. 



In Maine, from the mouth of the Kennebeck, eastward, Sal- 

 mon and Sea Trout are abundant, though they are not, for the 

 most part, much taken with the rod and line, the New England 

 waters, so far as Salmon are concerned, being for the most part 

 virgin of the Fly. In Nova Scotia, however, and New Bruns- 

 wick, such is not the case ; and there, as well as in Lower Ca- 

 nada, so far up as the Thousand Islands, immense sport is had 

 annually by amateurs with this king of fishes. The St. John's, 

 the St. Lawrence, and all their tributaries, abound with Salmon 



