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fisheries^ can I doubt, particularly when regarding the action 

 of the New York legislature in regard to a fish so compara- 

 tively worthless as the Carp, that, could such a thing be effected 

 as the recolonisation of our rivers with Salmon-fry, some action 

 of the legislatures would ensue for their protection, until such 

 time as they could be fairly naturalised. 



"Whether this be feasible or not, it is certain, that to every 

 inland spring-lake, from the western line of Pennsylvania to 

 their easternmost and northernmost limits, every variety of 

 Brook Trout and Lake Trout can be introduced with ease, and 

 at a tri\-ial expense ; nor these only, but the true Salmon like- 

 wise. And I strongly believe that, when the extreme simplicity 

 of the method, and facility of the means, become generally 

 known, the true Salmon will be introduced, at least, into the 

 lakes of Hamilton County, as well as into many other inland 

 waters. In fact, running as he does now into Ontario, there is 

 no reason why he should not be safely lodged, beyond the 

 power of returning, above Niagara, and compelled to fill Erie, 

 Michigan, Hui'on, and Superior with his noble race. 



A few years since, he found his way into Seneca and Cayuga 

 Lakes, and if modern improvements — heavens ! how I loathe 

 that word ! — have not excluded him, he finds his way there yet, 

 and thence might be propagated, ad infinitum, through the 

 whole region of the lesser lakes. 



The next point of great value to be attained by the use of 

 experiments of this nature, is the ascertaining how far fish are 

 capable of hybridisation, and possibly the creation of new and 

 interesting varieties, besides the elucidation of sundry now 

 mooted questions concerning the manner in which various 



