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energy in a good cause, I have never been 

 to Huningue myself, but when my friend 

 Mr. Coumes, Engineer-in-chief of the works 

 on the Hhine, and also of those at Hu- 

 ningue, came to England, he kindly gave 

 me a series of large and beautifully-executed 

 photographs of the buildings and of the 

 apparatus used, so that the observant spec- 

 tators can see the whole process as it were 

 before them. It is in this wonderful esta- 

 blishment that the eggs of fish are kept, and 

 advanced in their hatching till they arrive at 

 the period at which they will bear travel. 

 It is by these means that many rivers in 

 France are actually re-peopled with fish, 

 employment given to hundreds of poor fisher- 

 men, and the food of the people greatly 

 increased. In order that the reader may see 



