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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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most tempting 1 pert augers have failed lo entice 



them io bite as in former years, barge numbers of pa irie 



chickens JlllVU been bagged; dlleks arc scarce ; squirrels 



abundant, musknif arid mink are increasing in numbers, and 

 \oiuir. In- who caught the large bass while asleep; men- 

 tioned in Fokest and Stkeam Bome tilne since, and myself 

 uing to have some fun. Wanderer. 







TENNESSEE FISHING NOTES. 



/ VEN, 1E.\ P. .JONES, accompanied by-faro of Ms sons, 

 \1 returned last Thursday from a i-m days' fishing expe- 

 • I it it >ii down on White Oat. The GfeneraJ reports having 

 had excellent sport, but nothing as it would have been if the 

 ilher wire cooler and Hie water not so clear. From what 

 the General said lo me of Hie country, T should suggest it to 

 on;, of your readers desiring Ihe solitude and simplicity ol 

 forest and frontier life. Only twelve miles from Hie railroad 

 the people art a* primitive "as they were a centary aeo. 



The streams about there are tilled with line game fish, the 



drinking water is perfectly pure, and a finer climate and 

 more beautiful scenery cannol be found in America, 



The Cumberland raver is again coming into favor with 

 our local anglers, and there are some who class il as one of 

 ihe vi'i-y best streams in the State. Up about Rock Castle, 



i : a] lov tO the nlOU'th of fanny Fork, splendid jack 



t, and channel cat (as game a fish as we 



ii.o, ■ i are there m vast numbers. 



1 regret to say that our fish laws are but little respected 



ia si Ulonl enforced, consequently the cruel ami outrageous 

 methods Of catching fish are constantly carried on. The 

 ConimisMoiins aie aoi, only powerless,' but are apparently 

 indifferent to the matter. 



I understand that Professor Baird intends making a large 

 distribution ol German carp in this State daring the Winter 

 and spring. If what he sends are not better careii for than 

 ■ already -i-nl 1 na'e. lie might as well keep (helii. Capt. 

 frank tiieen is ihe only person I know of who has eared lor 

 bis original slock, and has succeeded in propagating them. 

 Il is a pitv that such viiluable food fishes should not be raised 

 here by millions. J. I). H. 



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ANCIENT ANGLERS. 

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eludii 



■r I had lor He- iirsl time made B careful read- 

 i; Markham's "Pleasures of Princes." When 

 preparing Hie "Bibliollreca Piseatoria," several weeks were 

 spent in unravelling the tangled threads of Markham's 

 numerous publications in which angling formed the theme 

 ol his facile pen. The result, fairly successful biblio- 

 graphically, is in the Hands of many of "your readers, but it 

 nuisl be confessed that, ou one point I frosted implicitly to 



ihe statements of my predecessors and— stumbled. The 



■'Pleasures Of Prince,, 1 ' which was first issued in Ki14 with 

 "The Second Boob of the English Husbandman" (the edition 

 in the bands Of your Contributor is a later one), was in 1616 

 included in Markham's ■•Country Contentments/' being 

 there stated to be "The whole art of angling as it was written 

 In U small treatise ie rime, and now, for the better under- 

 tan i« of the reader, put into prose and 

 enlarged," The small "treatise in rime" was 

 of Angling," by J. Decays, published in 161B. 

 statement as to the origin of his tract has 1 

 without question by all writer,, and bihliographe 

 the writer) during t|)o 370 years thftt have elapsed since it 

 was made. The rancid admission of obligation bits served 

 its purpose admirably. Generations of critics and "curious 

 inquirers" ha*e been thrown off the scent. It might have 

 been .suspected 1h-.il a writer who laid bis hands Without 

 scruple on tile materials gathered by others, and possessed 

 IP an eminent degree the happy art of digesting his facts 

 and putting llii-in in a taking form before his readers, had 

 more reason leer bis candor than laj oh the surface, Appar- 

 ently this- was net suspected by those who have noticed 

 "The Pleasures of Princes" during Ihe present century. To 

 Markham's contemporaries, however, the reason must have 

 been well known, 



The truth appeals to be this: Markham, who had written 

 largely on all kinds of country employments and Occupa- 

 tions, wan I'd a treatise on angling, lie gathered such works 

 as existed on the subject (the properly of one "stationer'' or 

 another) and proceeded to apply their contents to bis Own 

 purposes, not by simple copying, but i we must in justice lo 

 him admit) by taking the whole of their facts and present 

 ing them alicsh in his owe way, The hooks before him 

 were the versions of the famous "Treatyse of Fysshynge." 

 first printed at Westminster in 1400 by Wynkyn'de \Ynrdo, 

 and afterward enlarged and altered by' various writers, 

 among whom Leonard MasCall and William Gryudall are 

 alone- known 10 us bj nam.-, wiih these he took the 

 "Mafeoil Rustique" oi Oharle Est aineand the "Secret- of 

 Angling." by J. D. From He .• e mi supplemented no 



doubt by some practical knowledge of the -port, for 1 n& 



the son of a country gentleman of g u od family, and -killed 

 in all country pursuits, he speedily oroduced the rery excel- 

 lent treatise which, with his usual skill at title-making he 

 dubbed "The Pleasures of Princes, or Good ah 



a the 



allt 



did 



aliens. " Xo doubt he look agood dealfr 



in rime.'' the general plan, many ideas, and, in 



the very words of the writer of Ibis "soothj ■ 



verse," but nine-tenths Of the matter of 



the sources i have indicated. Why, it may t 



.Markham state that his obligations' weie eon,,,,,. 



book? For ltd- reason probably: Because it was an obli 



gat ion which scarcely existed— oi which the publishers of 



i ts of Angling 1 had no ground of complaint; and 



because it closed the mouths of the other publishers whose 

 books had beee reall.\ ••foil: Ldowii' '■■ Ibis gallant literary 



free lance 



Many little myst cries were laid bare in the "Bibliotheca 

 Piscatoria,'' and my present occupation bids fair to put the 

 solution of many others in my hauds. I am editing a series 

 of re prints of the rarer arid 'more valuable angling hooks 

 nridi i- the general titje ol id Blshing Books/' 



ami Mr. Wesl wood is rendering me' his invaluable aid anil 

 assistance. The eider version of the "Treatyse of Fysshynge." 

 now first printed from a manuscript in the possession of the 

 famous angling hook collector. Mr, Denison, will form 

 ■ ■ I i ibis aerie-. Several other versions qs amended and 

 enlarged by Mascall. Gryndall and others will folli 



lie . alibi' 



Collectors hear- of but never see, save is 



v - r* i ti - Of the eopies ihat bine eome down lo US are 

 carefully guarded. "The Pleasures of Princes" will be 



among these "old fishing books," and the "Secrets of Ang- 

 ling, " which has already received favorable notice in your 

 columns. 1 send you a list of Ihe first instalment, and you 

 can judge whether or no the "Library" is likely to prove of 

 interest to "scholarly anglers." The' number o'f these gentle- 

 men is very limited, i know, and 1 shall Iherefore see that 

 my publisher prints bui a very limited number of copies 

 (100 perhaps) of those hooks iikelv to be in least demand. 



THOS, SATi'fTEI.L. 

 London, England, (let. Hi. 



We gladly give place lo the above, as we regard Mr. 

 Satehell's researches of great value lo angling literature. 

 He has taken up the subject from pure love of it, and has 

 done his work thoroughly.' For the benefit of our readers 

 On this side of the water we give the following list of the 

 Library of Old Fishing Books, which have been or are to be 

 re] rinted. some of them iu very limited numbers. The] are 

 announced as: 



"Extremely rare ami valuable hooks, carefully edited, well 

 printed in quarto form on the best hand-made foolscap paper, 

 in uniform Koxbro' binding (half leather), with gilt top and 



!. An older form of the treatyse of fysshynge wyih an 

 angle (circa 1430), now first printed from a manuscript, in the 

 i. tior Of Ml. Denison. with preface and glossary bv 

 Thorua- Satcheli. Priee, 7s. lid. (200 copies printed.) ' 



;.'. The treatyse of fvsshynge wvtlr an angle, first printed 

 by Wyrrkvn de Wordo in 1496, with preface and glossan bv 

 Thomas 8atche.ll. Price. 7s. lid. V2W copies printed.! ' 



3. The secrets of angling (1013), by J. |ohn] D, [ennys]. with 

 introduction by Thomas West wood. Price. 7s. Od. 



4. The pleasures of princes (1014). by Gervase Markham, 

 with introduction by Thomas Westwood. Price, 7s. Od. 



5. Conrad Hcresbach's "De piscat ione compendium" (1 5 ?0), 

 with a translation by Miss Ellis and introduction by Thomas 

 Westwood. Price," 7s. lid. 



0. A book of fishing with hook ami Hue ( 1390), by f ,. f eoua id | 

 M.fascall]. 



7. A brief volt-cat is of fishing, with the art of augling(1596), 

 by W.Lilliam] G.[ryndall]. 



8. Book xx of the Geoponika of Cassianus. BaSSUS e/e,-,, 

 960), Willi a translation of the Greek and notes. 



9. The chronicle of the compleal angler of Izaak Walton, 

 by Thomas Westwood, with notes and additions by Thomas 

 Satcheli, 



in. ri, ! lions from old English authors touching fishing and 

 angling, collected by T. Westwood and T. Satcheli. 



It. A jewel for gentrie (1614). 



12. Richard de Fourmvall's "De Vetula" (1470), with 

 ': at i.i fe re'i Israni latioa 



NETTING IN GREENWOOD LAKE. 

 i CHANGE has come over the spirit of the dream of 

 , V Messrs. Hazen and Degraw, the proprietors of the 

 Windermere Hotel, ar Greenwood Lake. It will je remem- 

 bered that they were the persons who, under date of Oct. 1.3, 

 telegraphed, and on Oct. i4 wrote to Commissioner Black- 



ford of the 



al Greenwood Lake, 



-.sip 



oted in our 



last issue. These gentlemen now profess entire ignorance 

 of the matter as to who netted the lish, protest that they saw 

 uo fisii which had been netted; in fact, seem determined 

 that no information which may tend to convict Stephen 

 Garrison, Warren Aldridge, or the two Ryorsons, shall be 

 furnished by them. It is confidently believed at the Lake, 

 that the prosecution of these violators of the law will be 

 abandoned, or if pressed, that there will be a failure of suffi- 

 cient proof to convict them. The hotel men and guides have 

 joined hands to throw every obstacle in the way of the pro- 

 secution, so far as furnishing information is concerned, and 

 one of the former is said to have employed counsel for the 

 arrested persons. One of the men engaged in the netting of 

 the fish, and who was arrested aucf taken to Goshen, was 

 heard to say "Well, they cannot prove we caught the lish." 

 Mr. Watetstone, of Hie" Lake, who saw the barrels contain- 

 ing the fish on the boat, iu transit for the railroad depot, says 

 he does not know what was in the barrels. 



In tin- meantime there is an intention on the part of Com- 

 inis-ionei Blackford, and a desire on the part of the various 

 iafions and individual anglers who visit Greenwood 

 Lake, that the ease be pushed to the extent of the law. We 

 learn that Mr. Harrison W. Nanny, of Goshen, has volun- 

 teered to lake charge of the case as counsel for the State 

 Fish Com mission, and we presume that any proof furnished 

 him as to Ihe netting, having in possession, or shipping of 

 the fish in question, will be used to insure the prompt pun- 

 ishment of Ihe men engae r « j d in this violation of the law. 



The defendants, among other things, claim that Mr. Silk 

 had an interview with Commissioner Blackford after the 

 hitter bad been informed Of the netting of the fish, and that 

 | Ejection made either asto the manner iu which 

 the ii -I. bad been taken, or to their heing shipped to England, 

 and that they intend lo prove this point on the trial. 



How far they will be allowed to dodge the question at 

 issue remain-; to be seen, but in the mean time the hands of 

 the Stale ganie protector and the counsel for the prosecution 

 should be aided by furnishing them with evidence which 

 may be in possession of anyone who desires the law to beob- 



A.8 for the hotel men aud guides, who are reticent in the 

 matter, let them remember where their interests lie, and let 

 every angler who visits the lake mark the men who fad lo 

 aid ibeoflicoiv, ol the law in protecting their favorite resort, 

 by furnishing evidence of such violations of the game law as 

 these guides are charged with. The counsel for the Com- 

 mission was obliged lo adjourn the case to Nov. !t foi want 

 of lesiinioin ; although Messrs. Hazen and Degraw were 

 both present they could furnish none. 



tl is lo be regretted that Messrs. Ha/am and Degraw, as 

 well as Mi. Watei-stone, steward of the club house of the 

 Greenwood Lake Association, should, after starting the 

 machinery of the law, be backward iu giving the evidence 

 1 1 - convict the Offenders. The practice of nett ing 

 the waters of this lake has been carried on for years in defi- 

 ance of the law. and itappeaw as iftaeguides and hotel men 

 on the lake wei-eafraid to give testimony on the subject. If 

 they imagine that the present prosecution is begun as a 

 "scare," they will find their mistake. We have conversed 

 with Mr. Blackford ou this subject, aud he is firm in declar- 

 ing that lie will push the ease as far as is in his power. lie 

 did his. whole duty when he telegraphed Ma thew Kennedy, 

 State game protector; to go to the lake ami see that the law 

 ii dated. The men about Green wood Lake know. 

 1 i-aow that a Fish Commissioner has no power to 

 !tuthoii/.e the netting of black bass to be sent out of the 



Stale. Therefore, all bilk about Mr. Silk having such per 

 mission is useless. It is equally useless to blame men on (be 

 other side of the water. The ones who are guilty of violat- 

 ing the law are those who drew the nets and sold the lish. 

 and for the sake of the example' we hope that they will be 

 punished. The law has been a dead letter there too long, 

 hnt that is no reason that it should continue so. It is certain 

 that if these men escape it will bo through the suppression 

 of testimony by those who telegraphed Mr. Blackford and 

 invoke,] the aid of the law, and are now fearful thai either 

 their neighbors will be punished ami thus become enemies, 

 or oil account of former offenses of their own in the matter 

 of illegal netting. 



MY FIRST ADIRONDACK TRIP. 



^ BOYHOOD RXMIXtSl ENCE. 



I QuMnueH.) 



BY invitation, we stopped at Pratt's all night and hunted 

 next day. We were inclined to stay another day and 

 fisli, and, as they urged it, we did stay, but were sorry for 

 if when we got back to camp, for we "found that nearly all 

 the venjeon left was spoiled. We buried it in short order SO 

 that the EUides would not find il out. As arranged, Pratt's 

 party cane up for our hunt, arid as I had been so unfortu- 

 nate they gave me the best position to stand; but as usual 

 the deer (lid not come where 1 was but went where Green 

 ■aiis watching. He had shot a deer Hie week before, and 

 that day had taken She poorest, position so that the others 

 could have the best show, but it ran into him aud he shot it. 

 It's all kick hunting for deer, and some men never shoot 

 them although they come iu the woods every year. 



Fred and I, one day while looking at 'the map of the 

 wilderness, concluded it would be a big thing to buy a boat 

 and row home. We no sooner thought of it than wc made 

 Up our minds to do it. Our money "was getting so low that 

 we would have lo use considerable* shrewdness 'in purchas- 

 ing. We had now been four weeks in camp, and thought it 

 would pay us better to go home in our own boat, for by do- 

 ing so wc could see more of the country. We only had $8S 

 each left, so we would have to buy our boat ou "tick." We 

 went at once down to the Forge House and purchased our 

 boat of ".Johnnie" Van Valkenburgh, a guide aud a good 

 one. He told us we need not send the money until itvvas 

 perfectly convenient, and offered to lend us some. We now 

 went to work and caught some lake trout and smoked them, 

 and also jerked about fifteen pounds of venison. We had 

 now plenty of provisions and a camp kit, and, with our $50, 

 thought we could come home all right, but we bad uo idea 

 what we were going through. 



Our first route was to strike the head waters of the Hud- 

 sou and come down that, but we found out that from Blue 

 Mountain Lake to the Hudson we would have a carry of 

 eight miles, and then the guides said it would be impossible 

 lugO down the river as it was too low, aud it would be folly 

 to try it, So we gave it up, made lip our minds to go down 

 He Saranac River to Lake Chainplain and then down the 

 Champlain Canal to the Hudson, striking it at Troy. 



After we had concluded to go down the Saranac we began 

 to make inquiries concerning it, and were very much put 

 out to find that all the guides informed us that we could not 

 go down that. They said the only time any one could go 

 down it was in the spring of the year, and then only ou rafts. 

 This river is only navigable for 'floating logs, and they all 

 said it was very dangerous work, aud frequently the lumber 

 men got killed. They described it as being a very rapid 

 and rough river and all of them said we bad belter" give it 

 up for no boat had ever ever run all the way down. This 

 only made us the more anxious to go, and the fact was we 

 had to go, for wc had now a boat on our bands and no way 

 of getting it home except by going down the Hudson or the 

 Saranac. We prepared everything for our start Thursday, 

 August 7. and were ready to" leave, on the morrow, but that 

 night •Johnnie" Van Valkenburgh brought a party of seven 

 into our camp; they seemed to be nice fellows, and wanted 

 us to stay with them a week. They had plenty of every- 

 thing to make a camp life pass pleasantly, and the temptation 

 lo star was great. Mv chances of shooting a deer would be 

 so good thai 1 was in favor of -tayrng. but Fred said we had 

 made all our arrangements to go and we had belter start, as 

 we had agreed to on the morrow. Wc got a good start the 

 irniug We hated to leave the old Seventh and it 

 never looked better to us than the time we were leaving it. 

 Our route was direct to Kellogg 's on Long Lake, wbicli we 

 wauled to make the first day, and did it, arriving there about 

 seven o'clock. Cur journey the first day passed pleasantly 

 although at one time we were threatened with a thunder 

 Storm, while on the Eaquette River, below the Buttermilk 

 Falls. The wind blew fearfully and we were in some danger 

 of the trees falling on ii, as we' could hear them fall off in 

 the woods, and they made as much noise as a small earth- 

 quake. The storm soon passed, however, and we felt re- 

 lieved. 



Sometimes the wind storms are very dangerous, and as 

 there is no place to go out of the way of the trees, it is very 

 unpleasant, The great wind fall of 1849 was exceedingly de- 

 structive, going over a space of 50 miles in length, by 2 or 3 

 miles wide. To day you can see where it passed over the 

 Eighth Lake, leaving a clear space of nearly a mile over the 

 mountains on each side: the belt is now growing up with 

 timber, and looks very peculiar. 



We found at Kellogg-'s quite a good many parties We 

 retired early, being quite tired. 



We did not get on ow* way until nearly 9 o'clock. We 

 went down Long Lake with a head wind, and were 

 not long in reaching- the Eaquette River. We pulled down 

 the Eaquette seven miles, and came to "Mother Johnson's. 

 carry," or the Eaquette Falls. Fieri- we cooked our dinner, 

 and Fred said something about "Bedouin Arabs," but 1 

 turned the subject before begot fairly started. We had 

 about seventy-five pounds of luggage-. 'and over the carries 

 we frequently felt sick. The boa I was easy to carry com- 

 pared to the 'luggage, which consisted of our guns and rod.-. 

 our army and rubber blankets, and the camp basket- tilled 

 with Our camp kit and provisions. Many times we both 

 felt we could not go a step further, but by perseverance and 

 thinking we Would have something to look back ou in the 

 future, we got through. Mother Johnson's carry is one ami 

 a half miles long, and one of the hardest in the woods, Sev- 

 | ' times We fell , ike giving up our trip while going ovei 

 this carry, but had too much grit to do it, Of" course no 

 one can appreciate how hard it was; but let them imagine 

 themselves, on a hot August day, going over one of those 

 rough mountain paths, With two guns and two rods iu one 

 hand and four heavy blankets in the other, a heavy pact 

 basket ou their buck nearly culling their shoulders through 

 to the bouc, aud see if Uiey think it either easj oi pi i 



