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of hatching you kill the spawn ; you may retard 

 but not stop it, and you can hasten but not too 

 quick. When you have handled spawn as long as 

 I have done you will find it a tedious kind of stuff. 

 I don't think yet that it is possible to transport it 

 to Australia ; but I am going to try an apparatus, 

 and if it fail I shall have spent all my faith in 

 sending spawn. We can send young fish, but I 

 doubt the spawn in any way. 

 I am, dear Sir, 



Yours very truly, 



E. EAMSBOTTOM. 

 Me. Youl. 



No. 3. 



Clitheroe, August 15, 1864. 

 Dear Sie, 



Glorious news from Tasmania, over 2000 fish 

 alive. Now you will recollect that I established 

 a Salmon fishery from 500 fry, and out of that 

 number of marked fry I got 128 of them back as 

 Grilse, so that you must conclude that the thing is 

 now certain, and you must allow me to congratu- 

 late you for this success, as I shall never attribute 

 the ice question to any soul but yourself, and I 

 should not like you to suffer any one to rob or even 

 join you at that honour. 



No one can tell how happy I feel this morning 



