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FISH POND AND TRANSPORTATION OF FISH. 



3, the amount would be small in comparison with the bene- 

 fits which would accrue. 



The Trout is the most delicate and difficult fish to convey 

 any considerable distance, and should be, narrowly watched 

 during the progress, and the water kept clear and as cool as 

 possible. 



Salt-water fish can be easily transported by sea in cars, or 

 the well-holes of fishing-smacks adapted for keeping them 

 alive. The tautog, many years since unknown in the harbor 

 of Boston, is now found there in great abundance, having been 

 taken in cars from Newport, R. I. There are many fish that 

 swim the southern waters that would thrive equally well in 

 more northern latitudes, and vice versa. 



Several years since, Mr. Pell, of Pelham, N. Y., had some 

 shad in pairs conveyed from the Hudson river to a pond on his 

 farm. A few years after he was much surprised to find, con- 

 trary to his expectation, that they had bred, and had grown to 

 the size of six inches. There is hardly a doubt that our ele- 

 gant striped basse of the salt water which goes up into the fresh- 

 water streams to spawn, could be domesticated, and made a 

 tenant of fresh-water ponds that are supplied with fresh-water 

 springs. There are many other descriptions worthy a trial. 



The celebrated Dr. McCulloch, of Edinburgh, succeeded in 

 naturalizing eight different kinds of fish from salt water into 

 fresh, with an improvement in their flavor ; and the philosopher 

 Bacon says, " that fish used to the salt water do nevertheless 

 delight much more in the fresh." Speaking of the salmon and 

 smelt, he says, " I doubt there hath been sufficient, experiment 

 made of putting sea-fish into fresh- water ponds and pools ; it is 

 a thing of great use, for so you have them new at a great dis- 

 tance; besides, fish will eat the pleasanter, and may fall to 

 breed." 



" Mr. Arnold, of Guernsey," says Pickering, in his " Remi- 



