144 BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



the case may be, no matter whether the color be black, 

 green or yellow. Every one will then know exactly what 

 is meant, and much of the confusion and uncertainty that 

 now prevail in connection with the nomenclature of the 

 Black Bass will be cleared away. 



" Not chaos-like, together crush'd and bruis'd, 

 But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd, 

 Where order in variety we see, 

 And where, though all things differ, all agree."- Pope. 



