1 74 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



than the same extent of best land, and with 

 a far less expenditure of labour ; and it is only 

 in old countries, such as China, where the 

 population has overtaken the food supply of 

 the land, that the waters are cultivated as 

 they ought to be, and that fish becomes a 

 main element in the daily food of the mass 

 of the people. With the possibility of obtain- 

 ing, by scientific aids and appliances, such 

 valuable results from the waters of our 

 streams, rivers, and lakes, and even from the 

 seas which wash our shores, the subject of 

 aquiculture is deserving of our earnest atten- 

 tion. The enormous fecundity of all kinds of 

 fish renders their increase and multiplication 

 easy ; and the question of how to turn to 

 the best account this bounty of nature is a 

 study worthy of the highest intellectual 

 powers, and will well repay those who devote 

 their time and attention to it, by results of a 

 kind valuable to the nation. 



M. Eugene Simon, who acted as French 

 Consul in China, gives some interesting 

 information as to the extent to which aqui- 

 culture is carried on in China, and we should 

 not be above taking a lesson even from the 



