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roads ; our exports, of cured fish would not therefore 

 be very great ; besides, if the tariffs on the Continent 

 should be at all modified, Ireland and Scotland toge- 

 ther would not half supply the European inland 

 States, where fish is a prime necessary of hfe, whole 

 populations requiring it twice, or three times in each 

 week. 



Merrion, September dth, 1853. 



Article published at the opening of the Royal 

 Exhibition. 



ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF FISH. 



We yesterday inspected the department, in the Great 

 Exhibition, called the Fishery Department; being the 

 space allotted for the exhibition of articles relating to 

 the fisheries ; in which department of the Exhibition 

 some important additions have recently been made. 

 There we saw, and examined with much interest, 

 plans and sections of boats, suitable for both the sea 

 and inland fisheries, miniature stake-nets, bag-nets, 

 and many other curious engines of capture ; models 

 of salmon-ladders, or devices for enabling salmon to 

 get over mill-weirs, with various other implements 

 pertaining to the sea and inland fisheries ; matters 

 which would each, for adequate description, require 

 a separate portion of our space, and all of which are 

 of interest, as relating to one of the chief resources 

 of the country. — But on entering the compartment 

 our attention was at once attracted to a vase, con- 



