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FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



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Scale of Feet. 



L Common Swordfish, Xiphias gladius. 2. Indian Swordfish, Histiophorus Indicm. 

 3. Common Tunny, Thynnis vulgaris. 4. Dolphin of the Ancients, Cort/phcena hip- 

 puris. 5. Scabbard-fish, Lepidopm argyreus. 6. Wolf-fish (a fighting character, be- 

 longing to the family of the Gobies), AntarrMchut lupus. 7. Fishing Frog, Lophim 

 piscatorius. 



during its entire voyage of eighty days from Alexandria, in 

 the Mediterranean, to Plymouth. 



It is a current opinion among sailors that this fish acts a 

 pilot's part to the shark, and accompanies and befriends it as 



THE PILOT-FISH. Naucrates ductor. 



opportunity offers; and certainly there is a great amount of 

 evidence which goes to show that there is something very 

 much like a confiding familiarity between these two compan- 

 ions of the weary mariner. Numerous well - authenticated 



