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gis (salmo marenula) known as the fresh-water herring in Scotland, 

 Switzerland and Silesia, would doubtless thrive here, as there, in 

 deep shaded lakes. So would the char, which inhabit the lakes of 

 the Tyrol. Mr. Astley Baldwin,* a pleasing writer on fish and 

 fishing, recently remarks : " a new species of salmon trout has lately 

 been brought to perfection on the continent (Europe). It does not 

 grow to a considerable size ; it is, however, very palatable, and 

 commands a good price. The name bestowed on it is salmo salve- 

 Jinus. This fish is being introduced into the Danube, one of the 

 best rivers for fish of all kinds in the whole of Europe." 



The Danube is at present a source from which many fine va- 

 rieties of fish are being drawn for propagation, among others, the 

 huge siliiris glanis, which reminds me that forty years since Sir 

 Humphrey Davy, in his " Salmonia, or Days of Fly-fishing," speak- 

 ing of that river, says : — 



" The four kinds of perch, the spiegil carpfen and siluris glanis, all 

 good fish, and which I am sorry we have not in England, where I doubt 

 not they might be easily naturalized, and where they would form an 

 admirable addition to the table in inland counties. Since England has 

 become Protestant, the cultivation of fresh water fish has been much 

 neglected. The barhot or lotte, which already exists in some of the 

 streams tributary to the Trent, and which is a most admirable fish, might 

 be diffused without much difficulty, and nothing could be more easy than 

 to naturalize the sjnegel carpfen and ailurus ; and I see no reason why 

 the perca lucio perca and zingil should not succeed in some of our clear 

 lakes and ponds, which abound in coarse fish. The new Zoological 

 Society, I hope, will attempt something of this kind ; and it will be a 

 better object than introducing birds and beasts of prey." 



After this extract from Sir Humphrey, time need not be wasted 

 in particularizing other less important varieties of fish desirable for 

 our waters, such as varieties of the bass, tench, and carp, and the 

 most recent English suggestion of the mountain mullet from 

 Jamaica. + Suffice it to say that none of the above suggested 

 additions to our game would be subjected* to any new climatic or 

 physical conditions were they imported into Nova Scotia. The 

 main objections are the expense and the difficulty of protection. 



With permission let me conclude this paper by reference to a 



* Once-a-week, Deer. 24, 1854. 



t Salmonia, page 258, Lond. 1828. 



tThe yellow perch (perca. flnvesceiis) will live everywhere in Nova Scotia, and 

 wiierever that useless fish is now found, the black bass (centopristens nigricans) 

 would tlourish, as also the striped bass, which although a sea-fish is said to thrive and 

 even to improve by being cut off from the salt water. The loch bass, another va- 

 riety, has found its way from Lake Champlain, through the canal, into the Hudson, 

 and plentifully stocked that river. 



