1-12 Introduction of Salmon from the 



the easier to feed them by the way. I fear to drag them after 

 the vessel would not be so certain of success as boxes erected on 

 deck. The fast motion of the ship would be liable to create too 

 much of a cross current, and thereby dash the fish against the vessel 

 in which they are conveyed; but if boxes or tanks were erected, 

 about 18 feet long by 4 feet deep and broad, and regularly and 

 slowly supplied with water from the sea, they might be very safely 

 carried. I would feed the boxes very slowly from a cistern placed on 

 their top, and allow this water to escape in the same proportion by a 

 small hole near the bottom of the boxes ; so that, when the cisterns 

 above are filled with water, they will keep up a supply for hours. 

 The boxes will also require a glass light on the top, so as to allow 

 the fish to feed ; and also a way, near where the water runs into the 

 boxes, for putting in their food. The boxes would require to be 

 made and placed in water some time previous to the fish being put 

 in, so that the tar would be all extracted from the wood ; and the 

 wood well filled with water, so that when the fish are placed in them 

 they will have the water pure, and without any injurious mixture. 

 ***** 



" I remain, &c., 



" A. YOUNG. 



" James L. Burnett, Esq." 



" Invershin, 25th January, 1849. 

 " Deab Sir, 



" I have received yours of the 21st January, and hope 

 you will get a suitable vessel, so that you can with safety carry out 

 the young Salmon ; but, in case you should not succeed iu getting it 

 in every respect fitted for their safety, I would not advise you to 

 proceed with it at all : for, were you to make an ill-prepared half-job 

 of it, and not succeed, it would deter yourself or others from the 

 attempt again for a long time, (for assuredly it will at some time be 

 done successfully). I would therefore be more anxious for you 

 delaying it for the present (unless you can be fully prepared), than 

 that you should fail to do what some one else might: for I see the 

 thing is quite practicable, — either to take the ova in December, or 

 the young fish iu the latter end of April or the 1st of May. Both 

 the seed and young fish can be got later or earlier than that time, 

 but then is the time they are easiest got. 



" If you succeed in getting a suitable ship, you had better get the 

 boxes made at Loudon, as a much smaller box would convey them 

 there than would be required for the long voyage. Aud if you succeed 



