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for this glorious success. Let me advise you to 

 persuade the Tasmanian Government to make a 

 special pond for the Trout, with a stream into it 

 forty or fifty yards long, and to keep them as 

 breeding fish, constantly in it, for the purpose of 

 taking the spawn from them and floating it in any 

 stream they may wish, as the trout alone are worth 

 all the money that has been spent, and a special 

 pond is worth making for them, as they have not 

 to go to sea, but are at home wherever they are 

 planted. 



I have hatched 700 Char since I last saw you, 

 and this spawn can be sent same as Salmon and 

 Trout, so you can send all our good fish out, as well 

 as one. 



I am, dear Sir, 



Yours very truly, 



E. EAMSBOTTOM. 

 Mb. Youl. 



Tasmania, Colonial Secretary's Office, 



23rd March, 1864. 

 Sir, 



I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 

 of the 20th January, containing the welcome intel- 

 ligence that you had so far succeeded in the im- 

 portant experiment to which you have devoted so 



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