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pears, Great Nature has wisely ordained that big fishes shall 
eat the little ones, and, to compensate for this consumption, 
fishes naturally increase many hundred fold faster than land 
animals, as before observed. 
T have presented these three great baits—the smelt, spear- 
ing, and caplin—for the angler’s information, for Lhave been 
acquainted with many anglers who could not name the dif: 
ferent fishes when taken together in great masses. Shoals 
o. these fishes are followed by salmon, codfish, and by the 
larger fishes of prey, such as the horse mackerel, cero, and 
bonetta, over which hover flocks of gulls, and ever and anon 
the latter swoop and shriek as they pick up the debris float- 
ing on the surface left by the monsters as they follow and 
feed on the shoals of these tender delicacies. 
Tue Cariix.—JJallotus villosus. 
All the estuaries of rivers and shores of the St. Lawrence 
teem with the caplin, and sometimes with the smelt also, and 
occasionally with all these three shoaling together. They 
form the staple food of the silver trout of the estuaries. All 
these fishes spawn in the spring, and, therefore, I am _ sur- 
prised that they should be supposed to belong to any branch 
of the Salmo genus. 
SECTION SEVENTH. 
THE SEA BASS. 
Where low the level Jersey shore ; 
Spreads out its ribb’d and sandy floor, 
At break of day the fishers launch 
The little skiff, so swift and stanch, 
Spread the white sail, forsake the strand, 
To dare the ocean miles from land. 
Full well by shoremarks they may know 
Where reets of weeds are hidden low ; 
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