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young fish, of any of these varieties, which, during the first 

 week or ten days, can be removed to any distance that can be 

 reached in that time — and, in these days of steam velocity, what 

 distance cannot be reached ? — in any cask, jar, or other vessel, 

 capable of containing a few gallons of water. 



There would not in this manner be the smallest difficulty, 

 and very small trouble or expense, in translating the Mackinaw 

 Salmon and the Siskawitz Trout from Lakes Huron and Supe- 

 rior, to the inland waters of New York, New Jersey, and Penn- 

 sylvania, — not the smallest difficulty in introducing the tnie 

 Salmon from the Penobscot or the St. John, to any lake, river, 

 or stream in the Middle States ; and, it having been proved by 

 the experiments of Mr. Upton in Lilymere, as recorded above, 

 that the Salmon will live and preserve its excellence in fresh 

 water, entirely debarred from egress to the sea, would it not 

 be a highly interesting, and, if successful, valuable experi- 

 ment, to attempt its introduction into the hundreds of limpid 

 lakelets which gem the inlands and uplands of our Northern 

 States ? 



Again, as it is well known that all the migratory fish, like the 

 birds of passage, return, whenever it is possible, to the streams 

 wherein they were themselves bred, to breed, it seems to me 

 that it would be well worth the trying whether these streams of 

 ours here, to the southward of Maine, which, within a century 

 or two, teemed with Salmon, but in which one is now never 

 seen, might not be colonised and re-stocked with the delicious 

 fish. 



There is no plausible reason why the Pinks which should be 

 transported to the Upper Hudson, and should there remain till 



