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able of the facts of migration that we should have 

 thus to think of the eels of the countries bordering 

 on the North Sea, after their term of years in fresh 

 water, finding their way out of the ponds, down 

 the rivers, and along the dim vistas of the sea to 

 meet their mates in the still depths of the distant 

 Atlantic. The large eels that go in the autumn 

 have been traced to some extent in the course 

 which they take. And we see every spring the 

 little eels which return from the depths, after 

 they have been already a year in the sea. But 

 what a sight it would be if we could see it, this 

 meeting-place f of the hosts of eels from many 

 countries which have come to spawn in the depths 

 of the ocean. 



