. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. ^;. 107 twenty pounds, with which tho dinionsioiiH of tho samo fish as described by La llontan, in his Men. fie PAmcrique, would H(«eni to apirci!â" Lcs plus f^rosses TniifeXy^^ says he, ^^ des Itus ant. cinq plcrls rt (hmi de Ion- frtimr ct un pied dc diatnetre"âbut at tho present day, specimens ol this gigantic niagnitudo aro never seen, and seventy pounds may bo taken as tho limit of
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. ^;. 107 twenty pounds, with which tho dinionsioiiH of tho samo fish as described by La llontan, in his Men. fie PAmcrique, would H(«eni to apirci!â" Lcs plus f^rosses TniifeXy^^ says he, ^^ des Itus ant. cinq plcrls rt (hmi de Ion- frtimr ct un pied dc diatnetre"âbut at tho present day, specimens ol this gigantic niagnitudo aro never seen, and seventy pounds may bo taken as tho limit of their ordinary growth. Even this, however, is a size to which the Soa Salmon has scarcely been known to attain. It is a bold, powerful and tyrannical fish, with which no other in- habiting the samt! waters can compete. Tho Gray Sucking Carp, Ca- tasiojnus Hudsonius^ tho Methy, a species of fresh-water Ling, Lota Maculosa, and tho Herring-salmon, Corcgonus Artedi, form the favorite food of this voracious fish, tho stomach of which is constantly found crammed with them almost to repletion ; but he will bite raven- ously and fiercely at almost anything, from a small fish or a piece of pork, to a red rag or a bit of bright of tin, made to play rapidly through tho water. In form, he considerably resembles the common Salmon, though he is perhaps rather deeper in proportion to his length. His head is neat, small, and well-formed, with rather a peculiar depression above the eye, and the snout sharply curved and beak-like. The head forms nearly a fourth-part of the whole length of tho fish ; the skull is more bony than that of the common Salmon, the snout not cartilaginous, but formed of solid bone; the jaws aro very strong, the upper over- lapping by about half an inch the lowei', which is strongly articulated to the preopcrculum and to the jugal bono. The eye is midway between the snout and the nape, and twice as f;\r from tho hinder edge of the gill-cover as from tho tip of th
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