The fishing, it is true, is not now what it used to be, either there or in other parts of the Sound, having declined from causes which may be known to those who have made themselves familiar with the subject. Still, within the past twenty years, bass of large size and weighing from fifty to sixty pounds, have been taken with the hook in this vicinity. Black fish are still numerous around the rocks and reefs along the shore. But old fishermen are unanimous in the assertion that there has been a steady falling ott in both the number and size of the fi.sh taken during the period of time mentioned above.''

- The bill contemplates the appropriation of about four thousand acres of land in Westchester County for the erection of three parks; the Pelham Hay Bark, the Bronx River Bark and the Vau Cortlandt Park. The Belham Bark is to consist of about seventeen hundred acres.

What the character of the fishing about Belham Bay was in the olden time may be gathered from the following little jioeni, taken by Mr. Itoltou from " Wilson's American Ornithology," and well worthy of being preserved for its originality and beauty : " Fisuerjian's IIvmn. " The osprey sails above the Sound ;

The geese are gone, the gulls are Hying ; The herring shoals swarm thick around ;

The nets are launched, the boats arc plying. Vo ho, my hearts ! let's seek the deep,

Rjiise high the song, and cheerly wish her. Still as the bending net we sweep,