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Extraordinary Fish Dinner, given by the Em- 

 peror at Moscow to Macarius. 



At the entertainment which ensued, there were 

 fish of every kind, boiled and roasted, and many 

 kinds of it fried in paste, with stuffing, so varied, 

 that we ourselves never saw any thing equal to 

 it. There were also several kinds offish, pounded 

 after the bones had been removed, and moulded 

 into the shapes of ducks and fowls, roasted and 

 fried. Macarius s Travels. 



Fishing Extraordinary. On Monday evening 

 last, the Duke of Buccleuch, after a day's hunt, 

 killed, within an hour, in the pool close by Mon- 

 teviot, three salmon, two perches, and a pike of 

 fourteen pounds, with a single gut line. Besides 

 those secured, his Grace ran several other salmon, 

 and another large pike ; and one of the most re- 

 markable points of the fishing adventure, was the 

 recovery of a hook and line, in the mouth of a 

 kelt of eight pounds weight, which again took the 

 hook after having broken away from the first 

 take. As a suitable termination of such sport, 

 his Grace, at night, speared twelve fish in the 

 same pool. Sunday Times, April 26, 1835. 



The Flounder. The flounder is only found in 

 rivers where the tide flows, and when you are 

 angling for eels in these parts, you are as likely 

 to catch flounders. They are caught in the creeks 

 connected with the Thames below bridge. In the 



