342 FISHES AND FISHING. 



duces an abundance of fishes, viz., the fljdng-fish, the 

 hammer-headed shark, and phoca, or sea wolf, similar 

 to those on the other side of the Mediterranean. Bar- 

 bel and eels are the most common river-fish. In the 

 warm spirings of Capsa, are beautiful small perch, with 

 chequered fins, and turn-up nose. Large shoals of cir- 

 cular flat polypi, with a semicircular ridge obliquely 

 across the back, frequent the coast. Lamping relates, 

 that many soldiers were lost in bathing at Dschidgeli, 

 through being sucked under by these monsters. 

 They are quite surrounded by small suckers, and 

 are eagerly pursued by tunnies and porpoises, — 

 " Algeria," by John Eeynel. Morell, 1854, p. 485. 



The lakes and rivers of North America yield an 

 abundant supply of excellent fish, as well as aquatic 

 wild fowl. The only lake, in the great chain of lakes, 

 in which fish are found that migrate to the sea, such 

 as salmon, is Lake Ontario ; the Falls of Niagara 

 proving an insurmountable obstacle to these fish 

 visiting the other lakes. The fish of these lakes are 

 of numerous species ; amongst them, particularly in 

 the Detroit River, there is the grey or salmon-trout, 

 black and rock bass, a few white and striped bass, 

 pickerel, pike, and fresh-water herrings ; some of the 

 outlets of the lake have many sturgeon, but in general 

 the flesh of it is but little esteemed. 



There is also a species of pike, called the muskan- 

 UDger, which grows to a large size, and is considered 



