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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Capt. Smith describes the 'rock fight' at Roanoke Falls in Virginia and North Carolina, an annual spring phenomenon around May 8 where vast numbers of bass-rock fish spawn, crowding the water so densely that a dog could not swim across.
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Capt. Smith, in his tour through Virginia and North-Carolina, mentions a very extraordinary circumstance which attends the falls of Roanoke every spring, about the eighth of May: it is called the rock fight. This is occasioned by such amazing numbers of those fishes, there called bass-rock, coming up the falls at the same time to spawn, that a dog thrown into the water then would not be able to swim across, nor could live in it one quarter of an hour; you may actually see them crowded thick upon each other, even to the surface of the water.
This singular phenomenon continues for three days, but on one of those days in particular the agitation of the water is most violent, the whole river being in a foam.
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Falls Of Roanoke, Virginia And North Carolina
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Every Spring, About The Eighth Of May
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Capt. Smith mentions a very extraordinary circumstance at the falls of Roanoke every spring, about the eighth of May, called the rock fight, occasioned by amazing numbers of bass-rock fishes coming up the falls to spawn simultaneously, crowding the water so thickly that a dog could not swim across or live in it for a quarter of an hour, visible even to the surface; the phenomenon continues for three days, with one day of particularly violent agitation and foaming river.