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admirably adapted to the purpose for which they were de- 

 signed. The group forms a square, the entrance portion of 

 which two lodges is devoted to the corps de garde, and 

 the centre has been laid out as a kind of shrubbery, and is 

 relieved with two little ponds containing fish. The whole 

 establishment, ponds and buildings, occupies a space of 

 eighty acres. The suite of buildings comprise at the side, 

 two great hatching-galleries, 60 metres in length, and 9 

 metres broad, containing a plentiful supply of tanks and 

 egg-boxes ; and in the back of the square are the library, 

 laboratory, and the residence of the officers. Having 

 minutely inspected the whole apparatus, I particularly 

 admired the aptitude by which the means to a certain end 

 had been carried out. The egg-boxes are raised in pyra- 

 mids, the water flowing from the one on the top, into those 

 immediately below. The grand agent in the hatching of 

 fish-eggs being water, I was naturally enough rather par- 

 ticular in making inquiry into the water-supplies of Hun- 

 ingue, and these I found are very ample ; they are derived 

 from three sources the springs on the private grounds of 

 the establishment, the Rhine, and the Augraben stream. 

 The water of the higher springs is directed towards the 

 building through an underground conduit, while those 

 rising at a lower level are used only in small basins and 

 trenches, for the experiments in rearing fish outside. 

 Being uncovered, however, they are easily frozen, and 

 besides, are frequently muddy and troubled. As a general 

 rule, fish are not bred at Huningue, the chief business ac- 

 complished there, being the collection and distribution of 



