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muscles {Mytilus eduUs), are eaten, both raw, with vinegar and pepper, 

 and boiled in milk, in America, France, and also in Spain and Portugal, 

 and what a cheap and healthy food they are, it seems that we, who have 

 so many muscles, ought certainly to follow the example of these countries. 

 I sincerely hope that the freezing of herrings and mackerel in the holds 

 of vessels will also soon be introduced in our country as the most suit- 

 able way of preserving large quantities of fish for a long time, and, like- 

 wise, that the shipi^ing of fresh fish on ice will become more common 

 with us than it is now. I think that so far the lack of proper means of 

 communication has prevented our adopting these imi)roved methods of 

 shipping fish. It must not be forgotten, however, that in order to ship 

 fresh fish on ice with any reasonable hope of success, the fish must really 

 be fresh when it is put on ice; as fish which is several days or even hours 

 old does not answer the purpose. If, therefore, those fish which are 

 caught in the open sea are to be shipped on ice, it is absolutely necessary 

 that the fishing-vessels either have ice-boxes or regular fish-boxes, where 

 the fish can be kept alive. It is very important that both live and killed 

 fish should be brought to market as soon after they are caught as pos- 

 sible, as it is well known that a fish loses much of its wholesome, nour- 

 ishing quality when it dies a natural death and the blood cannot flow off. 

 Small fish-ponds for keeping those fish alive which have been caught in 

 nets will, therefore, in connection with fish-boxes on board the vessels, 

 prove extremely useful, and deserve to be mtroduced wherever it is 

 possible. 



I must, in conclusion, mention quite a new rowing-api^ratus, invented 

 by Mr. William Lyman, of Middlefield, Conn., which was patented during 

 the Philadelphia Exhibition. This so-called ^^ bow-facing rowing gear'' 

 consists in having the oar divided in two parts, which are connected by 

 double galvanized-iron hinges, which move in the form of a parallelogram, 

 and are fastened to the boat by small balls in bronze caps, which fit 

 exactly in two pieces of board screwed firmly to the boat, from which, 

 therefore, the motion proceeds towards both sidles. The rower sits with 

 his face towards the prow of the boat and uses the handle of the oar in 

 the usual manner, whilst the oars themselves move in the same direction 

 and drive the boat forward when the rower draws the oars towards him- 

 self, and backward when he pushes theiu away; therefore exactly the 

 reverse of the usual mode of rowing. 1 o a person unaccustomed to it, 

 this way of rowing looks very strange, as the boat seems to move the 

 wrong way. The advantage is this, ihat the rower can always sit and 

 look in the direction in which he is going ; but I think that this inven- 

 tion wdl never be of much practical use, except in harbors, or for hunt- 

 ing and fishing. As far as I know, two samples of this rowing gear 

 were bought during the exhibition, besides the one which I bought, and 

 brought to Norway by Mr. A. Brun and a ship-builder, Mr. Bronlund, 

 who therefore are able to give further information regarding this curi- 

 osity. 



