MARITIME PISCICULTURE -OYSTER- 

 CPLTURE.* 



CONTENTMENT being an eminent Christian grace, we are 

 bound, no doubt, greatly to admire poor Goldsmith, 

 in his Grub Street garret, trying to persuade the world 

 that 



" Man wants but little here below, 

 Nor wants that little long." 



This may be true of many an individual frequenter of 

 Parnassus hill, whose summit, being in cloudland, is 

 far above the line of profitable cultivation. Of man in 

 general of man working hard and having a prodigious 

 appetite of man working little, and needing to have 

 his stomach cheated into the exercise of its functions 

 by the seductions of an ingenious gastronomy of man 

 " in populous city pent," whose aggregate omnivorous- 

 ness is astounding the starved poet's saying is glar- 

 ingly untrue. "Man needs but little I" no man in 

 his senses will say that, after seeing steamships and 

 vessels from every quarter of the globe unloading in 



* Voyage d'Exploration sur le Littoral de la France et de 

 1' Italic. Rapport a M. le Ministre de 1' Agriculture, du Com- 

 merce, et des Travaux Publics, sur les Industries de Comacchio, 

 du Lac Fusaro, de Marennes, et de 1'Anse de 1'Aiguillon. Par 

 M. Coste, Membre de 1'Institut, Professeur au College de France. 

 Paris : Imprimerie Imp6riale. 



