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they were determined to put everything into a pie, so were 

 they loth to adopt new methods of preserving fish for the 

 market. If proper means were adopted there was no reason 

 why enormous quantities of pilchards, preserved in salt as 

 well as in tins, should not be sent to London and other 

 English markets, though of course there were difficulties of 

 transport to be overcome. Mr. Cornish had referred to the 

 remarkable occasional disappearance of the pilchard from the 

 coast of Cornwall, and it occurred to him that possibly the 

 china clay works in Cornwall might have some influence on 

 the movements of those fish. Enormous quantities of milk- 

 white water were poured into the sea down many small 

 streams in the county, and that might have some effect, 

 though he did not suppose it was the chief cause of the 

 disappearance, because the same sudden disappearance had 

 been noticed in France. He recently came across a letter 

 received in 1879 from a friend in France, who spoke 

 of the sudden appearance there of the sardines in great 

 abundance, though for more than twenty years there had 

 been a great scarcity. The abundance which had generally 

 prevailed since had shown large occasional fluctuations. 

 He trusted that many other gentlemen in Cornwall would 

 follow Mr. Cornish's example, and make a study of the 

 movements of this and other fish with a view to the 

 practical encouragement of those very important industries. 

 The resolution having been carried unanimously, 

 Mr. CORNISH said he did not think the china clay had 

 much to do with the disappearance of fish, because it had 

 been noticed that they still remained in localities where that 

 water and also mineral water ran into the sea. They would 

 require to watch them still more closely for some time to 

 find out the reason for those movements. 

 The MARQUIS OF EXETER then proposed a vote of thanks 

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