[1]The Fall Fish of Rock Creek is evidently identical with the Dace of
Walton; it is really a beautiful and sweet fish, and well deserves
its local reputation.
[2]The unvarnished facts contained in this article were picked up by the
writer in the autumn and winter of 1847, while he had charge of the
city department of the New York Daily Express.
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