Leaping Atlantic Sturgeon at Augusta, Maine. June 25, 2003.
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"But while looking at the rushing and rippling stream, I saw a
great fish, some six feet long and thick in proportion, suddenly emerge
at whole length, turn a somerset, and then vanish again beneath the water.
It was a glistening, yellowish brown, with its fins all spread, and looking
very strange and startling darting so life-like from the black water, throwing
itself fully into the bright sunshine, and then lost to sight and pursuit."
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Augusta, Maine. July, 1837.