APPEND I X.-(A.) 
THE FISH AND FISHING 
OP NORTH AMERICA. 
A sort of half promise, made in the earlier portion of this 
work, induces me to add a few words, under this head, though 
they will be so brief and of so general a nature as to come more 
befittingiy under the form of an Appendix, than into the body 
of the work itself. 
In Field Sports, Fishing cannot properly be included, although 
it is so decidedly a branch of Sportsmanship that it would scarcely 
be proper to pass it over without some notice ; and yet to so 
brief a space must my remarks be limited, that anything more 
than a few of the most passing hints, would be worse than ab¬ 
surd, and impertinent. 
The Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of 
North America is, to say the least, not inferior to the Shooting 
and Hunting ; more especially in the Northern and Eastern Dis¬ 
tricts of both. 
In Maine, from the mouth of the Kennebeck, eastward, Sal¬ 
mon and Sea Trout are abundant, though they are not, for the 
most part, much taken with the rod and line, the New England 
waters, so far as Salmon are concerned, being for the most part 
virgin of the Fly. In Nova Scotia, however, and New Bruns¬ 
wick, such is not the case ; and there, as well as in Lower Ca¬ 
nada, so far up as the Thousand Islands, immense sport is had 
annually by amateurs with this king of fishes. The St.John’s, 
the St. Lawrence, and all their tributaries, abound with Salmon 
