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men in and about New York, who spend a great portion of 

 their summer vacation at this retreat, and, as I have been 

 informed tfy many of the members (some of them salmon 

 fishermen of experience), the sport they there have is only 

 second to what they could obtain on Labrador or Canadian 

 salmon rivers. 



I believe that this fish could be most easily introduced 

 into English 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, drainage, etc., may have reduced their num- 

 bers 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 ini- 

 tiated in the necessary mysteries can, at the proper sea- 

 sons, confidently expect a heavy basket as a reward for his 

 trouble, and that within sight of the numerous spires, store- 

 houses, and business haunts of their handsome Western me- 

 tropolis. 



Great and unprecedented trouble has been lately taken 

 successfully to introduce salmon and trout to the Southern 

 hemisphere. With how much less difficulty could this fish 

 be transported here no tropics to cross, only one-fourth or 

 fifth the distance to traverse, and steamships to be found 

 sailing almost every day of the week. Certainly this mat- 

 ter is worthy of consideration, for not only would thou- 

 sands find amusement and health in their capture, but a 

 wholesome and excellent article of food be provided for our 

 immense population. 



BLACK BASS are found in the vicinity pf the Thousand 

 Islands in the St. Lawrence, the Niagara River, Lake Erie, 

 and, in fact, nearly all streams and lakes that are situated 



