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2.' Herring ; thicker through the body, and nearly the saute length as that 

 on the sea-coast. It resembles the Nova Scotia herring. 



3. Sheep's head ; like ours, but no teeth ; a hard, dry fish. 



4. Basse ; is a dutch word, signifying perch. Black, or Osnego, baait, a 

 iine fish, like our black fish. 



5. Reck basse ; like the sea basse. 



6. White b&sse ; in shape like our white perch, but rather longer. The 

 tail resembles that of the rock fish, and its sides are striped. 



7. Sturgeon ; is the largest fish in the lake. It has no dorsal fin. In re- 

 spect to shape, it is similar to that in the Hudson, and has the same habit of 

 vaulting. 



Sturgeon have been caught in Lake Ontario weighing one hundred pounds. 



8. Sun fish. 



9. Musquenonges, or pickerel ; a fine fish ; it has been caught forty-fire 

 pounds in weight. 



10. Pike. 



11. Very large snapping turtles. 



12. Muscles. 



13. Cray fish ; a species is found in all our small streams exactly like the 

 european : but they have greatly diminished. 



14. A species of clams. 



15. Sword, or gar, fish. 



This catalogue is very imperfect ; for there are, besides these, a number oi 

 other kinds. 



Salmon have been caught, iu the Seneca liver, in every month of the year 

 They sometimes weigh thirty-seven pounds. They pass Oswe^o, and 50 up the 

 O*wego river in April, are then in fine order, and spread over all the western 

 waters in that direction, and return to Lake Ontario in September and October, 

 much reduced in size and fatness. If this fish has the same habits as the eurcpean 

 salmon, the numerous conical collections of gravel which are to be found near the 

 margin of several of the western rivers, must have been erected by them. In Eng 

 Jand they deposite their spawn in holes made purposely iu beds of gravel, aad co- 

 vered with successive layers of the same materials, and as it becomes animated 

 each individual liberates and provides for itself. Their growth is singularly 

 rapid, arriving at six or eight inches in length early iu the spring, at which sea- 

 son the whole becomes immensely numerous, follow the old fish by descending 

 with floods to the sea. 



Although there is no animal, if we except roan himself, that is so universally 

 disseminated over every climate and country in the globe, as the common ec! : 

 heins an inhabitant in atsoost every instance where fresh water flows or is per- 



