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river, they are scarcely found south of the Alleghany 

 ridges, nor in the "Western States south of the Great 

 Lakes, or west of Michigan, until we reach the Pacific 

 watershed.* Now, as this district extends over not less 

 than thirty-five degrees of longitude from east to west, 

 by fifteen of latitude from north to south, it must be 

 obvious that no general rules can be adopted which shall 

 be applicable to the whole of that vast tract. In the 

 British provinces, and Lower Canada, the rivers are not 

 clear of thick ice until the end of April or early in 

 May ; and in the western country, on Lakes Huron and 

 Superior, the season, if any thing, is later. On Long 

 Island, in May, trout-fishing is nearly at an end ; on the 

 Callicoon, the Beaverkill, and the various tributaries of 

 the upper Delaware and Susquehanna, it is then begin- 

 ning, and is shortly after in its perfection. On the 

 superb lakes and streams of Hamilton county, New 

 York, and of the North Eastern States, June is the 

 month par excellence j and probably, for those who can 

 endure the pest of the black fly and black midge, there 

 is no such fishing in the world, for extent of water, quan- 

 tity, and size of fish, and loveliness of scenery, as the 

 former locality can afford to those who are bold enough 



* In the "Western and Southern States several different fish, in nowise 

 connected with the trout, nor belonging to the same family salmo, are 

 known as trout. The fish so called from South Carolina, southward, is 

 a variety of the Squeteague or wheat fish, Otolithus Carolinensis that 

 misnamed trout in the West is a species of fresh water bass, or corvina. 



