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as large, nearly one thousand pounds in weight. 
Dr. Holder reported to the society that these 
fishes were very plentiful in Massachusetts Bay 
in 1850, and that he had measured several which 
were ten feet in length. Another fish taken at 
Bass Point, Nahant, was examined by Dr. Holder 
and Louis Agassiz, who were then investigating 
the fauna of the bay; it was found to measure 
ten feet in length; girth, six feet; weight, six 
hundred and fourteen pounds. The discrepancy 
between weight and length in different fishes is 
one of the interesting features in controversial 
angling, the weight being a question of ‘condi- 
tion, not length. 
On European shores the horse-mackerel or 
tuna reaches the Lafodin Islands in latitude 69°, 
and can be found well up on the Newfoundland 
coast in summer. It appears at Provincetown, 
Cape Cod, in June, leaving in October, and is 
harpooned for its oil, a large fish producing 
twenty-three or twenty-four gallons. Regarding 
the range of the fish in the Atlantic, Kingsley 
says: “Mr. Matthew Jones of Halifax, Nova 
Scotia, writes, ‘The tunny is very common on 
the eastern coast of Nova Scotia in summer, and 
is known to the fishermen as “albacore.” The 
