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plantation. Might not, for instance, plaice be carried across the 

 Atlantic and introduced to the Canadian coasts and the Banks of 

 Newfoundland, where its congeners in other waters, the cod, haddock, 

 and halibut, already occur ? Or, again, might not the very small 

 halibut, which have been brought to market by the trawlers in vast 

 quantities from certain parts of Faxe Bay, Iceland, also be brought 

 alive and set out on the North Sea grounds, where this valuable 

 species was without a doubt much more abundant formerly than it is 

 to-day? Such, and many practical questions of a similar nature, proffer 

 a wide field for future research. 



