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quehanna rivers will soon teem with a salmon as beauti- 

 ful, and affording as good sport as does the salmon of the 

 North-east. 



Although I am credibly informed that salmon will not 

 rise to a fly in the Sacramento River, yet they rise generous- 

 ly 011 its tributaries. Of course they will rise in the upper 

 waters of the Delaware and Susquehanna, for its eastern con- 

 gener of the artificial stock has been found to rise for flies 

 in the Connecticut River, and the California branch is said to 

 be the most rapacious, and more willing to risk all for a fly, 

 of any of the salmon families. 



"A birr! a whirr! a salmon's on, 



A goodly fish, a thumper ! 

 Bring up, bring up the ready gaff, 

 And when we land him we shall quaff 



Another glorious bumper ! 

 Hark ! 'tis the music of the reel, 



The strong, the quick, the steady : 

 The line darts from the circling wheel ; 



Have all things right and ready." STODDART. 



SECTION THIRD. 



THE GRAYLING. Thymallus signifer. 



This fish is a member of the family or tribe Salmonidce, 

 and is termed by Linna3us Salmo thymallus; by Cuvier, 

 Thymallus vulgaris; by Agassiz, Heckel, Kner, and other 

 naturalists, as Thymallus vexillifer. 



Although anglers meet the grayling in a few of the trout 



