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Some of our , finest cranberries, purest honey, and choicest bits of dried venison, were carefully laid aside for the occasion. These, as being products of the country, would, we thought, prove a greater treat than anything that could be imported from the east. It was now spring, and each pleasant day beheld us busily engaged in clearing away and burning the rubbish that had collected during the winter about our dwelling. One day while thus engaged, we heard an unusual splashing in the river, which much excited our curiosity. We mentioned the fact to our workmen, and they determined to ascertain the cause. After due examination they found it occasioned by some of the finny tribe, but whether whale, shark, or crocodile, was still a mystery; certain it was they were of an enormous size. The river then being unobstructed by dams, there was free passage from the lake up. The workmen, however, determined to make war upon these monsters of the deep. They at first tried shooting them; but, as this did not succeed, they armed themselves with pitchforks, and waded into the stream. They found much difficulty in holding them without a barbed spear (with which article they were unprovided), but after cutting their throats in the water, they at last succeeded in bringing a number triumphantly to shore, the largest weighing one hundred and twenty pounds. We. who had always resided in the interior of New York, knew but little about what kind of fish they were; but a gentleman present, who had seen them caught from the Hudson, pronounced them to be sturgeon.
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