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fish from the north beach at Old Point Comfort, 

 where they were evidently feeding upon the crabs 

 which fairly covered the bottom at times. The 

 bait used was a single soft-shelled crab a kill- 

 ing lure. There are numerous fishing-grounds 

 about New York bay well known to boatmen at 

 Staten Island, Fort Hamilton, on the New Jersey 

 shore, Jamaica Bay, Fire Island, South Bay, and 

 various other localities. All these places have 

 their habitues ; some fish with hand-lines, some 

 with rods, who have the shallow mussel beds and 

 other " spots " located off which they anchor, cast- 

 ing on to the bank with good, bad, or indifferent 

 results depending upon tide and weather. The 

 "beds" can be often recognized by the quantities of 

 broken mussel shells. On the outer Florida reef 

 the feeding-ground of the porgies, as they were 

 called, could be determined by a dark spot on the 

 otherwise clear sand of a shallow lagoon, sur- 

 rounded by the broken shells of bivalves. The 

 Hon. William Elliott, in his delightful " Carolina 

 Sports on Land and Water," describes the sport 

 in Port Royal Sound, where large enclosures were 

 built out into the water to encourage the growth 

 of shell-fish the food of the sheepshead. Stands 

 were also erected for the angler, who was a man 



