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in getting all things prepared, try and get a stock of cattle's livers for 

 food ; they can be salted, and boiled as they are required— boiled to 

 such a degree that they will break small with the hand ; get likewise 

 coarse flour bread, also broken small : and put them into the box among 

 the water— only small quantities at once, as fish subsist long on little 

 food ; and it is not expected you are to have them killing fat when 

 you arrive, but only taken there alive for the sake of breeding. 



" In the event of your not getting them taken out with you this 

 year, you can perhaps arrange matters so as they can be taken 

 afterwards. I shall at all times be ready to assist in sending the 

 finny tribe to any quarter where they have not yet reached ; and I do 

 not see why the world should not be supplied with such a prolific* and 

 useful race. ***** 



" Believe me, &c., 



" A. YOUNG. 



" James L. Burnett, Esq." 



• Cuvier states that 27,850 eggs have been counted in one female weighing 

 twenty pounds. 



