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the fresh attractions of the sport afforded by 

 salmon and trout fishing ; also to place on 

 record what has been done in the attempt 

 to introduce the Salmon into Australian 

 waters. Should this attempt prove successful 

 — which time alone can show — the knowledge 

 of this result will be in itself an ample reward 

 to the writer for all his exertions, which, from 

 the very interesting nature of the work he 

 had undertaken to accomplish, were to him a 

 labour of love. 



December, 1878. 



