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quehanna rivers will soon teem with a salmon as beauti- 
ful, and affording as good sport as does the salmon of the 
North-east. 
Although I am eredibly informed that salmon will not 
rise to a fly in the Sacramento River, yet they rise generous- 
ly on its tributaries. Of course they will rise in the upper 
waters of the Delaware and Susquehanna, for its eastern con- 
gener of the artificial stock has been found to rise for flies 
in the Connecticut River, and the California branch is said to 
be the most rapacious, and more willing to risk all for a fly, 
of any of the salmon families. 
“A birr! a whirr! a salmon’s on, 
A goodly fish, a thumper! 
Bring up, bring up the ready gaff, 
And when we land him we shall quaff 
Another glorious bumper! 
Hark! ’tis the music of the reel, 
The strong, the quick, the steady: 
The line darts from the circling wheel ; 
Have all things right and ready.”—Stoppant. 
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Tue Grariine.— Thymallus signifer. 
This fish is a2 member of the family or tribe Salmonide, 
and is termed by Linneus Salmo thamallus; by Cuvier, 
Thymallus vulgaris; by Agassiz, Heckel, Kner, and other 
naturalists, as Thymallus vexillifer. 
Although anglers meet the grayling in a few of the trout 
