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CHAPTER X. 

 CONCLUSION, 



Thus then I have endeavoured to give some idea 

 of the immense importance of the cultivation of the 

 waters, and especially of salmon rivers, a subject 

 which at the present time is so justly attracting the 

 attention of the Emperor of the French himself, of 

 philosophers, and of the whole nation of France. 



The remarks I have made are not based upon 

 speculation, but upon long experience and careful 

 observation, during a series of years. These princi- 

 ples I have applied to the cultivation of my own fish- 

 ery, but I do not wish my experience to end there. 

 I wish to give it to the public in general, not only in 

 England but to the friends and neighbours of English- 

 men the French. 



France has many fine rivers which require but the 

 application of industry, skill, and capital, to render 

 them productive of food for the great and enlightened 

 nation which inhabit it ; and I trust the day is not 

 far distant when the labours of the learned, scientific 

 men of France, who have taken the study of the 

 French fisheries under their charge, will be rewarded 

 by the increase of the supply of food for the people 

 from its rivers and the vast waters which wash its 

 shores. 



In presenting this essay to the President and 

 Council of the " Exposition Internationale de Peche 

 et d' Aquiculture," at Arcachon, I must beg, not only 

 on my own part, but also on the part of the salmon 

 cultivators of Great Britain*, to congratulate them on 



