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Waquoit bay, to the lower waters of Marshpee 

 river, and to Monument river, &c. ; but if later in 

 the spring, and in the early summer, though 

 Marshpee brook will be the great dependence, 

 the various other places where the sea-trout are 

 found are almost innumerable ; for there is not a 

 rivulet that flows from the springy banks of the 

 upland into the creeks of the salt marsh, but con- 

 tains more or less. Among the most celebrated, 

 however, are the two tide rivers in Sandwich, call- 

 ed Scusset, and Scorton, to the former of which, 

 once without its equal, we may again apply the 

 word fuit, for it has now suffered from the usual 

 effects of a mill. As to the smaller streams, that 

 which crosses the Barnstable road and enters the salt 

 meadows, about four miles from Sandwich, near the 

 Quaker Meeting-house, has, from our own expe- 

 rience, sometimes yielded great results ; in fact, 

 it may be said that the whole country is full of 

 trout, and not confined, though peculiar to this 

 town, for they abound in the neighboring towns 

 of Falmouth, Barnstable, Wareham, Plymouth, 

 etc., and to come nearer home, Marshfield, of 

 which last, by the way, out of regard to the tena- 

 cious notions of such friends as view the ground 

 their own by a sort of prescriptive right, but for 

 which we can feel no sympathy, we forbear to 

 make that particular mention which it justly 

 merits. 



