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former is sometimes caught by means of a large scoopnet, in 

 such places where it is necessary for the fish to approach near 

 the shore or a rock, to pass upwards. 



Angling is in considerable repute, and the out-line is fre- 

 quently employed. This consists of a stout cord about a hun- 

 dred yards long, to which the hooks are attached at intervals, 

 by lines (or links) a yard long; the whole being stretched and 

 anchored in a suitable place during the night. Live bait is em- 

 ployed, and should be supplied from time to time to the hooks 

 which have been stripped. 



Various species are abundantly caught in the fall of the year 

 in fish-baskets, made of lathwork, with diverging walls of 

 stones, leading from the entrance up the stream for one 

 hundred or two hundred yards. In the shallow waters, fishes 

 are speared or gigged by torch light ; the smaller streams are 

 fished with a bow-net, into the mouth of which the fishes are 

 driven by beating the water; and set-nets of a cylindrical 

 shape, kept open by hoops, with an expanded mouth, and pro- 

 vided with funnels to prevent the return of the prisoners once 

 entered. These are set in dams, at the mouths of creeks in 

 deep water, when suckers are principally caught; but when 

 set in the Susquehanna, cattishes and sunfishes are usually 

 taken. 



The published materials on the history of our fishes are scat- 

 tered through many different works, and are inaccessible 

 except to the professed naturalist. 



Perca lutea, Kafinesque ; (flavescens, Cuvier,) the yellow 

 perch is common in the Susquehanna. Labrax lineatus, Lin ; 

 rockfish: L. albus; Raf. (mucronatus, Cuv.) white perch. — 

 Percina nebulosa; Hald : P. minima, (Ethcostoma Olmstedi, 

 Storer.) Pomotis appendix, Mitchili ; black-eared sunfish:* 

 P. auritus, Lin; (moccasinus, Raf.) yellow-eared sunfish. — 

 Lucioperca Americana] Cuv.; salmon. Cottus viscosus, Hald.j 

 (cognatus ? Rich.) resembles a small Pimelodus or catfish.— 

 These nine species include all those which have spiny rays in 

 the first dorsal fin, as far as we have been able to determine. 



Cyprinus cornutus; Mitchili — hornchub, and several other 

 species. Catostomus cyprinus, Lesucur; carp, not allied to 

 the European carp : C. maculosus, Les. ; stoneroller and some 



*These English names are also applied to certain marine fishes, 

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