. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. Tiir; SPOT nil T. vrAYi:TTi;. SPOTS. CROAKERS AXD RONCADORS Man's lif.! is wrirm, , sad, 'twixt Invos ami i;ravos, rumiullcss ill hiipe, humiurcil witli lian,;j;s austere. Heaven gazin;^ ; ami liis winus ho craves ; The lish is swift, small-needing, va;;ne yet clear, A ci'Kl, sueet, silver life, wrapt ill rmnul .vaves, (Juickened with tuuchcs of trans]iortiii4 fear. Liacii Hint, The
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. Tiir; SPOT nil T. vrAYi:TTi;. SPOTS. CROAKERS AXD RONCADORS Man's lif.! is wrirm, , sad, 'twixt Invos ami i;ravos, rumiullcss ill hiipe, humiurcil witli lian,;j;s austere. Heaven gazin;^ ; ami liis winus ho craves ; The lish is swift, small-needing, va;;ne yet clear, A ci'Kl, sueet, silver life, wrapt ill rmnul .vaves, (Juickened with tuuchcs of trans]iortiii4 fear. Liacii Hint, The Flsii, The M,iii muf the S/'it\'t. '~r*HE Si'OT, or Lafayette, xaiitluinis, is found aloni,^ our coast from New York to the Oulf of Mexico, and is known in New \'ork and elsewhere as tlie "Spot," on the coast of New Jersey as the â¢â (loody " and sometimes as the " Ca|)e May Croody," in the Chesapeake region also as the " Spot" and the " ; at Charleston, S. C, as the '⢠C'hul)," in the St. John's River, Ma., as the "}*[asooka"âthis name being probably a corruption of a Portuguese name, "Bezuga"âand at I'ensacola as the " Spot " and '⢠Choiui ; The name "Lafayette " is used for this fish in New York even to the present day. This name was given it by the New York fishermen in consetiuence of its reappearance in large numbers in that region having been coincident with the arrival of Lafayette in this country in 1S34. It had been known before that time, but only in scattering numbers. Although they sometimes enter the large rivers of the South, such as ii \. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896. Boston : Estes and Lauriat
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