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doubt, be more in their favour, and a larger 

 number would probably survive, than if they 

 had been earlier exposed to all the perils of 

 the river ; but if they had to be transported to 

 a distance before being liberated, the risk of 

 loss, with fish of the size that they would 

 then have attained, would more than counter- 

 balance the loss from their early liberation. 



