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Aackerel, ot which we have some III tho Chesapeake, though by far the most of tliam come from the waters contiguous 10 New England, arc fish from very great dis tance the Black Sea. This appears from the following extract from Commodore Por- ter's Letters from Constantinople.

 MAcHERRL IN THE pospHoRus.- is the season Feb. 12, for catching mack erel here. They come down from the Black Sea in immense shoals; and thou sands, ny tens of thousands5 of boats come at the same moment into the Bosphorus, employed in taking them in seinea and oil 'netss The quantity taken and sold every day would appear incredible. They arc from five to six iAches in length, and no- thing can be nrere delicate than they are. By the lime they get to Gibraltar they arc half grown, and full grown when thev ar- rive on the coast of America, three or four months hence.

 The Black Sea appears to be inc great nursery for the raackerel, as we'll as the ;sa- lemedes, IS they are edherc, or the tun- ny fish as they are called when full grown. and caught on the coasts of Sicily, Italy, and Spain. Myriads of these are taken dil- ring the few weeks of their running. They are generally from foot to I8 inches long, and an excellent kind of fish for boiling.-- Indeed there is no place so abundant in fish as the Bosphorns, and there IS no place where so many are taken. From the win dows aud doors of most of tho houses situ- ated or this beautiful canal, they take fish with lines; and in the fine, calm, and beau- tiful summer mornings, the bay of Buyuc- dere may be seen swarniiI,g with kaicks filled with ladies and gentlemen of the lega- ton, and with those of the Frank families. and Armenians, and Greeks, engaged in the diversion of fishing. 1t, in fact. makes the principal one ofthe few amusements of the country.

 '.The large fishing boats which are en- ployed for taking the mackerel and paleme- des are generally fifty feet in length, narrow. and sharp al both ends, and are of the best construction for velocity. They are rowed by eighteen active young Greeks. who make them fly through the water; and there can be. no scene more annating than to see half a dozen of those boats approach the quay on their return from their fishing ex- cursionss laden with the fish which they have taken at q single haul of their seincs. They pull with a strength, quickness, and regularity which is truly surprising, and tho stroke of their oars in he water produces a most singular noise, which may be heard for more than nlile,n