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tide is not yet full; but perhaps we had better use the last 
of the flood tide to help us up to the light-house on Ber- 
gen Point Reef, for the best time there is just after the tide 
has turned ebb, when I never failed of an how’s brisk sport. 
Let’s, therefore, up with our killick and man the seulls, which, 
with the tide, will carry us there in twenty minutes. 
Well, brother angler, our good arms, assisted by the tide, 
have enabled us to arrive in time for me to cast anchor on 
this, my favorite ground. The tide is just high-water slack. 
Our landmarks are right. Let go the anchor. Be seated 
and ready, but do not cast until the boat toles by a decided 
ebb of the tide. In the mean time suppose we lunch? Now, 
as we enjoy these broiled squab, buttered biscuit, and a mod- 
icum of claret to moisten them, we will feast our eyes upon 
the captivating scenery. Comparatively few understand the 
pleasures of boat fishing. It is removed from the dust and 
hurry-seurry of terra firma. Our position enables us to sur- 
vey several shores and the employments of busy life. What 
can be more lovely on a mild autumn day than scenes like 
these from a boat? We are near enough to the metropolis 
to hear its noises subdued into a musical monotone. That 
mountain which you perceive at the head of Newark Bay— 
of which we are at the foot—is Snake Hill, at the confluence 
of the waters of the Passaic and the Hackensack, which emp- 
ty at each prong of the fork formed by the head of this 
bay. To the south a few miles you perceive a large city, 
which is Newark. The spires of a town still farther south 
are over Elizabethtown, while two miles south from us is 
Elizabethport. On the Staten Island shore, at the east of us, 
are New Brighton, Factoryville, Port Richmond, and a series 
of buildings and gardens, as a part of the periphery of Staten 
Island. Directly in front of us is Bergen Point, being a gar- 
den charmingly dotted with dwellings of picturesque archi- 
tecture. Do not these scenes present subjects for contempla- 
tion sufficiently enchanting to pay the artist for a visit with- 
out any sporting accessory? Many innocent persons wonder 
