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wealth under water, as much as any under 

 ground," and if this be not a branch of 

 public wealth that deserves cultivating, we 

 know of none that is. 



Mr. Ashworth, confident as he is himself, 

 told me that he could breed salmon easier 

 and at a much less cost than he could lambs. 

 He has continued his exertions, and in 

 December last Mr. Miller, the Messrs. Ash- 

 worth's resident superintendent, collected 

 and deposited no less than seven hundred 

 and seventy thousand salmon ova in the 

 streams of Lough Mask, with those of last 

 year, making a total of one million four 

 hundred and twenty-nine thousand ova. But 

 in addition to this large supply, Mr. Miller 

 has conveyed forty adult salmon alive, a 

 distance of twenty-three miles in a large tub 



