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to the last act, where instead of the fire, the light, 

 and the white object being prohibited, as employed 

 against the old fish to attract them to destruction, 

 it is made to apply to the young fry and their pas- 

 sage down the rivers to the sea, where no one ever 

 thought of employing lights or white objects. So 

 great a misconception as this of the nature of fish 

 ought to be rectified ; for it is very well known, 

 that lights are the principal means by which the 

 breeding fish are attracted, and then destroyed by 

 the spear, during the autumnal months. I can 

 place any one at a particular point where he may 

 see at the same time, every night throughout the 

 months of October, November, and December, 

 several fires blazing by the banks of a river, and 

 the spearers moving about from place to place, 

 with lanthorns, employed in this work of destruc- 

 tion. There is no effectual law to prevent the 

 practice ; and until there be such, this evil, with 

 the many others I have enumerated, can have 

 no hope of remedy. 



THE END. 



