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posited, and those that were dead had been greatly injured in removing 
them from the collectors. 
When they have placed many hundred receptacles tor the young in 
Oyster Lake they will without doubt be able to harvest an extraordinary 
number of such young oysters. 
From the description here given by me it is to be hoped that people . 
will adinit that the discovery of Oyster Lake may become a matter of 
great importance for oyster culture in Norway; regarding it both as a 
nursery for this highly esteemed mollusk wherefroin many of the oyster 
beds which were formeriy rich may again be supplied with parent oys- 
ters, and as a school for the study of oyster culture. 
