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.iderible u,„nev, an.l go h.me again without sixMiding auything i.i 

 I.Hml The leelamlerssl.ouUleuoourage foreigners to come to the, r 

 Xr not tnl o a vi.sit, but to settle there. This eou.d easUy be 

 loriV " viug en.ployment to foreign fl«her,neu who wou .1 consent to 

 St" V in Iceland for some years an,l try their fortune. leeh.ml .s by no 

 means sth a terriWe eountry to live iu as is son,e,unes n,a,lo out; and 

 "dUed fishermen will certainly have a ehanee to nu.ke n.oney 



The Iceland flshern,™ have but little knowledge of nay.gat.on, au,l 

 it.is a very rare th.ng to find an Icelander as captain o a sea-going 

 Viel. Whv does not the Iceland government establ.sh a school ot 

 navigation at EeylyaviU, laThaps in .onnectiou w, h a school lor I she - 

 ,oen° This should certainly be dcme. The Iceland government sb.mld 

 do something to pr.nnote the lisheries, as by formb.g an Iceland whal- 

 ing company, by establishing a guano factory, by endeavonng to uitro- 

 duce lobsters in the Iceland fiords, &c. 



Denmark might <.inse a cable to belaid between Iceland and Norway 

 and have the Iceland waters properly e.-camiued ami surveyed and good 

 maps of the .same published. 



