. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. /^4^^-.^ THE SPOT OR LAFAYETTE. SPOTS, CROAKERS AND RONCADORS Man's life is warm, glad, sad, 'twixt loves and graves, Boundless in hope, honoured with pangs austere. Heaven gazing; and his angel wings he craves ; The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapt in round waves, Quickened with touches of transporting fear. Leigh Hunt, The Fish, The Man and the Spirit. '"T^HE Spot, or Lafayette, Liostonms x
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. /^4^^-.^ THE SPOT OR LAFAYETTE. SPOTS, CROAKERS AND RONCADORS Man's life is warm, glad, sad, 'twixt loves and graves, Boundless in hope, honoured with pangs austere. Heaven gazing; and his angel wings he craves ; The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapt in round waves, Quickened with touches of transporting fear. Leigh Hunt, The Fish, The Man and the Spirit. '"T^HE Spot, or Lafayette, Liostonms xaiithiu^us, is found along our coast from New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and is known in New York and elsewhere as the ''Spot," on the coast of New Jersey as the '' Goody " and sometimes as the '' Cape May Goody," in the Chesapeake region also as the '' Spot " and the '' Roach," at Charleston, S. C, as the ''Chub," in the St. John's River, Fla., as the " Masooka "—this name being probably a corruption of a Portuguese name, "Bezuga"—and at Pensacola as the " Spot " and " Chopa ; 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 consequence of its reappearance in large numbers in that region having been coincident with the arrival of Lafayette in this country in 1834. It had been known before that time, but only in scattering numbers. Although they sometimes enter the large rivers of the South, such as. 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. New York, Standard book co.
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