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coast ; and that Bass, whose natural habitat is fresh water, 

 meet them here on common feeding-ground. 



Mr. Bull, a noted angler of New Orleans, assures me he has 

 taken fourteen Sheepshead, whose average weight was seven 

 pounds, in the course of an afternoon's fishing at the break- 

 water, not over a mile from the steamboat landing, at the ter- 

 minus of the Ponchartrain Bailroad. The bait he uses are 

 large shrimp, fiddlers, young crabs, and muscles. After the 

 prevalence of strong south-easterly winds, large schools have 

 been known to come in shore along the piers of the above- 

 mentioned landing, and numbers of them have been taken for 

 some days, when they suddenly disappear in search of other 

 feeding-grounds. 



The excellence of this fish is so universally conceded, that 

 I do not deem it necessary to say a word in praise of it, 

 whether boiled or baked. It is considered by some equal to 

 Salmon, but, like " Midshipman Easy," I am disposed to 

 " argue that point." 



