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own inquiries have convinced me that we have detruded the fishes to too low a 

 station in the scale of animal intelligence and of storgal love." Discourse on 

 Desiderata in Natural History. 



Dogs have been trained for hunting and fowling. The falcon has been taught 

 fora similar purpose j and the cormorant has been rendered useful in catching 

 fishes. But I believe, it is not generally known, that the indians of the Antilles, 

 had the art of taming a species of sea-fish, and employing them to chase other 

 larger fish. Of this art, Oviedo Gomara, and other writers make men- 

 tion. 



The species of fish which those indians trained to chase large 6sh, as they 

 train hawks in Europe to chase other birds, was rather small, called by them, 

 guaican, and by the Spaniards, reverse. Oviedo explains the manner in 

 which they made use of this fish to chase others. Clavigero's Mexico, vol. 2. 



After this, we certainly can have no hesitation in believing, that the same 

 fishes return periodically to the waters of their nativity for breeding, and pursue 

 a prescribed, nndeviating course. 



NOTE 26. 



Some are of opinion that in tae upper lakes there are salt water fishes which 

 ,'iave been left there since the retreat of the waters after the general deluge, and 

 that they cannot return to the ocean on account of the cataract of Niagara. A 

 :aptain of a vessel, who was well acquainted with the navigation of those lakes, 

 assured me, that he could in the spring and fall, when the floods are high, go with 

 his vessel, drawing six feet water, from Black Rock in Lake Erie, to Lake Mi- 

 chigan, from thence up the Chicaga creek, to its then junction with the Illi- 

 nois river, thence down that river to the Mississippi, thence to the Gulf of Mex- 

 ico, and that then, of course, he could come round to New-York. The sea-fish 

 could easily proceed in this rout j if not, some of them might leap down the 

 falls and effect their escape. 



There is certainly, however, a very great resemblance between the fishes oT 

 Lake Erie and the fishes of the Atlantic. 



1. The while fish ; a most delicate fish, and superior to the shad in fla- 

 vour. Its head and month are like those of onr shad, and so is the fish gene- 

 . rally. 



