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ing this fishing. Even a club-house has been built, 

 and a very large association formed of the principal 

 gentlemen in and about New York, who spend a 

 great portion of their summer vacation at this 

 retreat, and as I have been informed by many of 

 the members (some of them salmon fishermen of 

 experience), that the sport they there have is only 

 second to what they could obtain on Labra.dor or 

 Canadian salmon-rivers. 



I believe that this fish could be most easily intro- 

 duced to our waters, and that he is well deserving 

 of the effort, for he is very hardy, and I do not 

 think so likely to be affected by the pollution that so 

 many of our streams suffer from ; they also appear 

 to be immensely prolific, for traffic, netting, drain- 

 age, &c., may have reduced their numbers, still 

 they are to be found in great abundance even in 

 such crowded water-thoroughfares as the Bay of 

 New York, Hudson and East rivers, that any person 

 duly initiated in the necessary mysteries can, at the 

 proper seasons, confidently expect a heavy basket as a 

 reward for his trouble, and that within sight of the 

 numerous spires, store-houses, and busy thorough- 

 fares of their handsome western metropolis. 



Great and unprecedented trouble has been lately 



