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hooks, or mauling and mutilating the bait. It is a greedy 
little shiny sinner, which is both herbivorous and carnivor- 
ous, foraging on both fish and vegetable dicts, and shoaling 
with the omniwmn gatherumn of bottom fish, which make their 
summer habitations among the weedy banks called by their 
name all along the coast from Maine to Georgia, from three 
to six miles from shore, purveying every where from their 
homes, into all the estuaries and tidal back-sets, for proven- 
der. The porgce is one of the most numerous of coast fishes, 
and as greedy as it is plenty. Dr. Brown, in his Anglers’ 
Guide, states that the steam-boat which runs daily to the 
porgee banks in summer returns with many thousand por- 
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eees, besides the sea bass and tautog, averaging from six to 
ten thousand as their daily eatch with the hand-line. To the 
mechanics and clerks of the metropolis these daily excursions 
in midsummer to the fishing-banks are great blessings ; for, 
besides the inflation of the lungs with bracing sea-air, the 
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change of scene, and the exercise out of doors, they bring 
back more than an adequate compensation for the pittance 
expended for the day’s recreation, There can not be tod 
many boats engaged in making fishing-bank excursions, pro: 
vided the boats are sound and well managed. In general, 
the captains of excursion steamers are well acquainted with 
the topography of the banks, and know where to order the 
