Jerome van Crowninshield Smith
Published: 2015-06-17
Total Pages: 412
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Excerpt from Natural History of the Fishes of Massachusetts: Embracing a Practical Essay on Angling In the course of several years residence on a small island in Boston harbor, the author became interested in the study of ichthyology. The daily opportunities which the locality afforded of examining a large portion of the species described in the following pages, resulted, three years since, in a catalogue of the fishes of the Northern States; - but within a few months past, the manuscript has been revised, and that part of it is now presented, which more particularly relates to Massachusetts. There are many unfortunate errors, and repetitions, which escaped notice, till it was too late to make the corrections. The distance at which the writer resides from the compositor, and the extreme difficulty, oftentimes, of going to the city, against wind and tide, are some, among many apologies, that might be offered in extenuation of these vexatious deformities. A table of errata, however, is inserted at the end. With respect to the engravings, they are far short, in many instances, of what was anticipated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.