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Having been urged by Mr, Youl not to admit the 

 Trout into the same * rivers with the Salmon, the 

 Commissioners have decided in the meantime to 

 place the former in the circular clearing Pond 

 under Mr. Eamsbottom's immediate eye and care, 

 where they will doubtless thrive and multiply, and 

 at no distant period afford the means of stocking 

 all the rivers of the Colony into which it may be 

 considered proper to introduce them. 



The great undertaking of introducing the Salmon 

 and Trout into Tasmania has now, the Commis- 

 sioners believe, been successfully accomplished; 

 and they trust they are not premature or too san- 

 guine in congratulating Your Excellency and the 

 Colony on this auspicious event, which cannot fail 

 at no distant time to exert a very beneficial influ- 

 ence on the interests and resources of the A.ustralian 

 Colonies. 



Few countries of the same extent possess more 

 rivers suited to the nature and habits of this noble 

 fish than Tasmania. A stranger acquainted with 

 the Salmon rivers of Europe could scarcely behold 

 the ample stream and sparkling waters of the 

 Derwent without fancying that they were already 

 the home of the king of fish. 



* Nevertheless Trout were placed in the Plenty riVer, to the 

 great risk, if not certain destruction, of the salmon fry, which 

 might in future be bred in the river. — A. N. 



