LONG ISLAND (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Long IslandNot so many of the population fish for a living as they did half a century ago. The reason is that more people come here to fish for fun. The whales are nearly all gone, and gas, electricity and kerosene have made the smoky whale oil effete anyway. Trout are raised in ponds belonging to clubs andenthusiasts. Off the coast menhaden are caught by the ton, but this has become a common-place industry. As to the oyster, scollop and clam fisheries they remain extensive and important. If there breathes a man with soul so dead, or stomach so rebellious and dyspeptic that he does not experience a thrill at the mention of Little Neck clams and Blue Point oysters, some good island missionary should take that man in hand and discover for him what delicious bivalves really are.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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._,