2 THE ACCLIMATISATION 



left nothing undone to establish in the 

 New World the most desirable animal 

 colonists from the old. If they have made 

 a mistake here and there, and have intro- 

 duced an unmitigated pest ILke the rabbit, 

 they will one day find compensation in 

 stalking the red deer and bringing the lordly 

 salmon to grass among picturesque granitic 

 hills, which may well recall to the eye of 

 the sportsman many a wild scene in the 

 highlands of bonnie Scotland or the softer 

 glories of the Irish lakes. Long before the 

 end of this century, when probably the 

 ploughshare will have invaded the haimts 

 of the red deer, and manufacturing "in- 

 terests" and a growing population shall 

 have driven the salmon in disgust from 

 most of our rivers — when even Scandi- 

 navia's pure waters have been tainted by 

 civilisation — the sportsman wiU take his 

 rifle and rod, and seek among the fern- 

 covered ranges of the Austrahan Alps and 

 the deep tarns and pools of Tasmania and 

 New Zealand, the noble quarry which has 

 found a congenial home at the Antipodes. 



