CHATTER XX. 
OF THE SEA-BASSE, PORGEE, &C. 
These are both sea fish, and abound in immense quantities 
in the ocean outside of Sandy Hook, New-York, on what are 
called the Sea-Basso and rorgee Banks. In the summer 
months, to the pent-up citizen who is obliged to stay in the 
city during the sweltering heat of July and August— the 
stranger who would new the beauties of one of the finest 
harbors in the world— and to the more scientific angler, who, 
after a season’s fishing at the gently gliding stream, or the 
romantic mountain lake, would like to try the more bracing 
atmosphere of the ocean— this mode of angling will often 
afford a day of amusement and gratification. 
During the above-mentioned months, steamboats aro pre- 
pared and fitted up for this species of fishing, and make their 
trips sometimes daily, returning, often, with well-satisfied 
amatour ocean anglers, each with their string of fish.” In 
order to enliven the scene on these occasions, a band of music 
* In the summer of 1843, immenso quantities woro taken— the stoam- 
boat ofteu returning with from six to ten thousand poigoos, and a por- 
poiuo weighing five or »ix hundred pound8. 
