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  points 
  in 
  immense 
  numbers. 
  The 
  proper 
  spawning 
  sea- 
  

   son 
  of 
  this 
  fish 
  in 
  Black 
  Lake 
  is 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  

   June. 
  At 
  this 
  season 
  they 
  appear 
  in 
  the 
  greatest 
  num- 
  

   bers 
  in 
  companies 
  of 
  four 
  and 
  five. 
  Being 
  objects 
  of 
  no 
  

   value 
  and 
  very 
  annoying 
  to 
  fishermen, 
  they 
  are 
  destroy- 
  

   ed 
  upon 
  all 
  occasions 
  and 
  in 
  great 
  numbers. 
  Pickerel 
  

   and 
  other 
  fish 
  very 
  often 
  suffer 
  from 
  the 
  bite 
  of 
  these 
  

   voracious 
  and 
  unsightly 
  fish. 
  They 
  have 
  been 
  taken 
  

   five 
  feet 
  in 
  length 
  in 
  Black 
  Lake. 
  

   Anguilla 
  tenuirostra, 
  Common 
  Eel. 
  Oswegatchie 
  river. 
  

  

  From 
  Joseph 
  Rdssel, 
  of 
  Albany. 
  

  

  KG-G 
  OF 
  THE 
  SHARK. 
  

  

  From 
  Benjamin 
  Knower, 
  of 
  Onondaga 
  Hill, 
  Onondaga 
  county. 
  

  

  A 
  SEA 
  SHELL 
  (Cassis), 
  from 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Ocean. 
  

  

  Tortoise 
  shell, 
  from 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Ocean. 
  

  

  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  coral, 
  from 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Ocean. 
  

  

  From 
  Abel 
  French, 
  Esq., 
  of 
  Albany. 
  

   A 
  ball 
  of 
  hair, 
  from 
  the 
  stomach 
  of 
  an 
  animal. 
  

  

  