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THE VACATION SEASON. 
ABOVE KENOVO, OX PHILADELPHIA AXI) ERIE RAILROAD. 
White Perch and Moccasin. 
“ Before bidding adieu to the Susquehanna, the fact deserves mention that there 
are good perch grounds in the vicinity o1 Port Deposit and off Locust Point, at the 
northern end of Spesutia Island, some six miles below Havre de Grace. 
“In the narrows, between Spesutia Island and the main land, moccasin or siln- 
fish of large size are plentiful and readily taken. Although not generally so classi¬ 
fied, they deserve to be ranked among the game fish, for at certain times they take 
the fly as readily and greedily as the trout. They are very abundant also at the 
edge of the channel at Carpenter’s Point, at the mouth of the Northeast river, nearly 
opposite Havre de Grace, and few miles south of Principio Station, on Philadelphia, 
Wilmington and Baltimore railroad.” 
The Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. 
The main line of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad runs in a northwesterly 
course from Sunbury, Northumberland county, to the great lakes, a distance of two 
