Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . as I have observed before, once abounding in all waterseastward of the Hudson, and though it has now ceased toexist in numbers west of the Penobscot, and even there can berarely taken with the fly, is still the choicest pursuit of theAmerican angler, although he may be now compelled to seek itiu the difficult and uncleared basins of the Nova Scotian rivers;in the northern tributaries of the huge St. Lawrence; or yetfarther to the westward, in the streams of the Columbia andthe cold torrents of Orego
Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . as I have observed before, once abounding in all waterseastward of the Hudson, and though it has now ceased toexist in numbers west of the Penobscot, and even there can berarely taken with the fly, is still the choicest pursuit of theAmerican angler, although he may be now compelled to seek itiu the difficult and uncleared basins of the Nova Scotian rivers;in the northern tributaries of the huge St. Lawrence; or yetfarther to the westward, in the streams of the Columbia andthe cold torrents of Oregon, all of which contain the trueSalmon, with many other noble and distinct varieties, iu un-equalled numbers. Of this glorious fish, of its generation, migrations, growth,and habits, so much has been discovered within, comparatively NKW FACTS. .jD |j:, ii lew years, that 1 am eiialjlcil ti) present a eoiisitler-al)le number ot facts, wliich will he ilouhtless new to many ofmy readers, and whieh may hi- received as juscertaiued andauthenticated heyuml thi- ]>usiiihility of 60 SALMONID^. THE SALMON. THE COMMON SALMON.—THE TRUE SALMON. Pink, first yeax-; Smalt, second yeai-; Peel or Grilse, second autumn. SulnioSalar Auctorum, British Fishes, vol. ii. p. 1. Dekay, vol. iv.
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