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" disease in many districts, and imperilling the general 

 " health of the inhabitants of the country ^^ 



Adverting, page 28, to the cases of the Rhiedol, 

 Ystwith, and Dovey, and observing that " no change for 

 the better had been made in the condition of these rivers," 

 polluted enormously by lead mines (the two first " com- 

 pletely poisoned,") Mr. Ffenncll remarks, with reference 

 to the Dovey, so seriously injured by the Dylifa lead 

 mine, and the remark equally applies, he says, to copper 

 mines, that — 



" The managers of the Devon Great Consols mine have 

 " shewn that the largest and richest mine in the kingdom 

 " can be icorked uithout damage to the Fisheries, and the 

 " system pursued at that mine should be universally 

 " carried out." 



At pages 29 and 30 Mr. Ffennell notices some naptha 

 and oil works as very destructive to the fish, the former 

 near Gloucester, which were sai^ to have "poisoned the 

 salmon last summer in great numbers, and the latter 

 below Chester, which so polluted the Dee, that it was 

 said its water " could not be used for Avashing," it being 

 added, that scores upon scores of sahnon had been found 

 dead near the tcorks, and that the water appeared at times 

 blackened for 7niles. 



At Page 27 of Heport, Mr. Eden, the other Inspector, 

 says : — " It cannot be too often shoion that in most in- 

 " stances the mischief occasioned by the pollution of rivers 

 " is capable of easy remedy, and in all of great pallia- 

 " tion ;''"' adding, at 



Page 40 of Report : — " On the subject of pollution, I 

 " have not suggested any amendment (Mr. Eden refers 

 " to certain amendments suggested by him in the English 

 " Salmon Fisheries Act of 18G1). It is a question of 

 " vital importance, not only to the Fisheries, but to the 

 " health and enjoyment of the whole population of the 

 " country, and appears to me to require graver considera- 

 " tion and more radical treatment than it can receive by 

 " the insertion and discussion of a clause in a Fishery 

 " 13111." 



