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of stocking rivers was practised two thousand years 

 ago, by the Bomans, and is largely treated of by 

 Columella, and others. After a lapse of many cen- 

 turies it has been revived again, and with great 

 success, in France. Two fishermen of the Yosges, 

 named Gehin and Eemy, have succeeded in propagat- 

 ing salmon, carp, pike, tench, and perch, and they 

 maintain that the plan is applicable to those fish 

 which live partly in fresh water, and partly in the 

 sea, as well as to those that live entirely in fresh 

 water rivers and lakes. The streams and rivers over 

 a large extent of France, have now been abundantly 

 stocked with a variety of fish from this ancient pro- 

 cess ; more particularly in the vicinity of Allevard, 

 Yazille, Pontcharra, Sessenage, Yeary, Bourg 

 D'Oisons Eivis, Pont-en-Boyans, Paladru, Lemps, 

 St. George, Avandon, La Buisse, Grenoble, and in 

 many other departments of the Allier, the Lozere, 

 the Meuse, the Meusthe, and Haut Laone. 



At the moment we are perusing these lines, we 

 copy from the pages of a public Journal, that this 

 mode of propagating salmon, is being adopted on the 

 Tay, in Scotland, on a large scale. As the account 

 must be interesting to all anglers, we make make no 

 apology for transfering it here as it is given : 



" THE SALMON MANUFACTORY ON THE TAY. The ponds 

 for this purpose are situated on the river bank, near Store- 

 mountfield, the spawning-boxes being 16 feet above the sum- 

 mer level of the river. The water which supplies the ponds is 

 taken from Storemountfield lake (but owing to the impurity of 

 the Tay during spates, a supply is also to be taken from a 



