180 FISH HATCHING. 



I have sent away from my boxes at " The 

 Field" office several parcels of young fish 

 (both before and after the umbilical bag has 

 disappeared from them) to gentlemen who 

 have fisheries. Thus, a noble Duke took with 

 him to Scotland about a- hundred grayling 

 and some charr (from Mr. Ponder's). Many 

 of the grayling died from simple and un- 

 avoidable causes, and my own neglect in not 

 giving written instructions to servants. The 

 charr arrived in safety. My friend Viscount 

 Powerscourt took with him some great lake 

 trout, to stock a newly-formed pond at his 

 estate at Powerscourt, Enniskerry, Ireland. 



My friend Captain Berkeley, 2nd Life 

 Guards, also took several great lake trout, 

 salmon, charr, &c., into Oxfordshire ; besides, 

 Messrs. Hall, of Farningham ; King, of Wat- 



