. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . We Avent out to them in a row-boat and succeeded in takingthirteen of them in the course of a day. After the first thrusts of the dip-net they grew shy and sought refuge under the boat, under which theywould sink far below our reach. A lull of a few moments would bringthem back to the log under which they had clustered until disturbed the boat was rowed away they followed in a close-swimming schooluntil Ave gained full speed, when they sudd
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . We Avent out to them in a row-boat and succeeded in takingthirteen of them in the course of a day. After the first thrusts of the dip-net they grew shy and sought refuge under the boat, under which theywould sink far below our reach. A lull of a few moments would bringthem back to the log under which they had clustered until disturbed the boat was rowed away they followed in a close-swimming schooluntil Ave gained full speed, when they suddenly turned, as if by one im-pulse, and swam back to the log or spar. Once they followed us abouttwo hundred yards from the spar, and then leaving us retreated to theirold shelter, reaching it some time before we could turn the boat and rowback to it. I had before this supposed them to be quite unusual, but onthat one day we must have seen, at the lowest computation, tAvo hundredor tAvo hundred and fifty. They doubtless have been given the name ofRudder-fish by the sailors who have seen them SAvimming about the sternsof becalmed X
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