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found that the high order lived on the low order. If the 

 latter were exterminated, the former would disappear. All 

 the finest salmon rivers had in them certain species of fish 

 of a very low order ; they entered the river at a different 

 period to the salmon, to reproduce their species, and the 

 young went down the rivers to the sea, and there in turn 

 were fed upon by the salmon which frequented the same 

 river. It was said by some gentlemen that you could not 

 produce the lower orders of fish, but he maintained that 

 you could produce a thousand to one of the lower orders, 

 because they deposited their ova in the spring months, 

 when the weather was warm, whilst the higher orders de- 

 posited theirs in the autumn months, when the weather 

 was cold, and took from three to six or seven months to 

 reproduce, whilst the lower orders were hatched in from 

 three days to three weeks. Consequently nature had given 

 the lower orders the greater preponderance. Throughout 

 nature, as a rule, the lower orders supported the higher, 

 and therefore it became the duty of man to carry out that 

 which Providence had ordained. Carp was a poor man's 

 fish altogether ; it could be produced in ponds and small 

 preserves, and ought to be protected and cultivated almost 

 above every other, whilst the salmon and trout were the 

 rich man's fish, because those who sought them had to 

 spend a large amount of money on the sport. With regard 

 to bass, it was a very bad voracious fish to introduce 

 amongst others of a better quality, and he said this coming 

 from a country where it was more famous than in any other 

 part of the world. Where they found the black bass they 

 never found the salmon or trout. There were lakes innu- 

 merable in Canada, where the bass, the pike, and other fish 

 of the same character abounded, but they never found in 

 those lakes any of the higher orders of fish. There were 



