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The mode in which a hen lobster lays her eggs is curious : 

 she lodges a quantity of them under her tail, and bears 

 them about for a considerable period ; indeed, till they are 

 so nearly hatched as only to require a very brief time to 

 mature them.* When the eggs are first exuded from the 

 ovary they are very small, but before they are committed 

 to the sand or water they increase considerably in size, and 

 become as large as good sized shot. Lobsters may be found 

 with eggs, or " in berry" as it is called, all the year round ; 

 and when the hen is in process of depositing her eggs she 

 is not good for food, the flesh being poor, watery, and desti- 

 tute of flavor. 



XIV. 



SALMON HATCHING ESTABLISHMENT ON THE 

 MIRAMICHI. 



Just before going to press, I have received the following 

 additional information from Rev. Livingston Stone con- 

 cerning this project. It will be seen from his remarks, 

 that all the difficulties which have heretofore existed in the 

 transportation of salmon ova to the United States, are soon 

 to be surmounted. All of the Atlantic states north of the 

 Chesapeake bay may therefore have an opportunity, at but 

 small expense, of restoring exhausted rivers, and trying the 

 experiment of naturalizing salmon in those which were not 

 its natural habitat. 



" The salmon breeding establishment on the Miramichi 

 was started by myself, and is owned nominally by myself, 



* Lobsters collect in large numbers through the summer in shal- 

 low water along the sandy shores of the bay of Chaleurs, to deposit 

 their eggs. Such a place is called by the habitans "a lobster 

 camp." 



