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a boat of his owu, with nets, worked her himself one season> 

 and caught two barrels. To use his ow)i language, " the 

 experiment spoke well by nay example and exertions; in three 

 years twenty French boats followed me. In 1850, one hundred 

 fishing boats were counted drifting down the Bay, all fine fast 

 w^eatherly boats prepared for any storm." The usual amount of 

 the catch of these French Acadians was 1500 bbls. Let us be 

 thankful that there is an Acadie still left, where an educated 

 gentlemen and a pious priest can take the oar and hook in his 

 hand as well as the chalice and the cross, and doing both in the 

 sole desire of his people's welfare, be thus followed and appre- 

 ciated by them. 



This fish was for a long time confounded with the English or 

 Alice shad, Harenga alosa (Linn., Gunther), and is so given by 

 Storer. DeKay gives to it the name, Alosa Prestabilis, taking 

 Cuvier's new genus Alosa, and gives the distinctive marks from 

 the Alice shad. Dr. Gill (Synopsis Fishes Bay of Fundy,) 

 restores to it the name alosa tyrannus, from Latrobe, and in a 

 note to me states his reasons for supposing Latrobe referred to 

 shad by this specific. Dr. Gill's authority on American fishes 

 will always command attention. In Gunther's catalogue (British 

 Museum) there are no Atlantic specimens of shad, L867. It 

 only remains for me to mention these various opinions, and to 

 lament the want of a good text book on the Atlantic fish brought 

 down to the present day with all modern additions. 



The Halibut. 



Pleuronictes Hypoglossus, (Linn., Gunther.) 



Hypoglossus Vulgaris, (Cuvier and Valencenes, DeKay, Storer) »- 



Hypoglossus Americanus (Gill.) 



In describing this large flat fish it is usual to consider it 

 placed upon its lower edge with the tail towards the observer, 

 and to call its sides= right or left as they present. In this species 

 the eyes are always on the right side, which is always dark 

 brownish ash, and the left always white. Individuals rarely 

 have been seen the reverse and with both sides dark. This 

 description was taken from a specimen at the Halifax fish market. 

 about two feet and a half long, weighing about twenty pouiitds- 



