452 Fisuinc 1x AMERICAN WATERS. 
Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and all over the Bahama Banks, 
along the coast of Florida, and as far north as South Caro- 
lina. As a dinner fish, it is generally regarded by the epi- 
cures of New York as superior to the sheepshead—the hith- 
erto aldermanic dinner fish pur excellence. 
This beautiful, gamy, and excellent fish is coming north- 
ward. It is now more numerous annually off the Carolina 
shores; and, like the sierro (cero), cavallo, and bonetta (bo- 
nito), may soon become another valuable gem to our coast 
fishermen, if perchance the menhaden is spared, as the most 
attractive bait-fish in the world, to allure the rich fishes of 
that vast area known as the Bahama Banks. 
It is interesting to notice that the débris from the currents 
around the north of Ireland and the east of Baffin’s and 
Hudson’s bays are forming the prospective new continent 
included in the area of Newfoundland, Anticosti, and the 
Georgia Shoals, and that the subsidence of the tides about 
the Bahama Banks and Florida Reef are enlarging the isl- 
ands. These phenomena neutralize the temperature of the 
Gulf Stream between the Northern and Southern great 
banks, so as to form the Atlantic shore between them into 
the most extensive feeding-ground in the world. 
Fishings for the rod and reel on the bays and estuaries 
along the Atlantic coast south of New Jersey, having hith- 
erto been approximately neglected by lovers of field sports, 
we hope soon to learn that these Elysian fields and waters 
for the disciples of Fishrod and Nimrod are being enjoyed 
in proportion to their attractions. Our wealthy gentlemen 
who like angling, trolling, and shooting, should erect winter 
dwellings in Florida, and maintain boats and shooting-boxes 
there. 
‘*Oh! dulcet is the poet's rhyme, 
When the angler goes a-trolling ; 
Dulcet and glad the river’s chime, 
A pean in the march of Time! 
When the angler goes a-trolling. 
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