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alarm to the Commissioners when they were ap- 

 prised of the disaster. Both were fully aware that 

 the Ova could not be detained in their ice prison, 

 as it then appeared certain they would be, for 

 more than 100 days, without danger and loss. 



The repairs of the ship having been completed, 

 she again started on her long voyage, and safely 

 reached Melbourne on the 1st May, after a favour- 

 able passage of average duration, but extending to 

 100 days from the date of her first setting sail. 



On the arrival of the Lincolnshire in Hobson's 

 Bay, Mr. Eamsbottom, the Superintendent of our 

 Breeding Establishment at the Plenty, whom the 

 Commissioners had despatched to Melbourne some 

 time before, for the purpose of superintending the 

 .transhipment of the Ova into the Victoria steam- 

 ship, which the Government of Victoria had with 

 the utmost liberality again placed at the service of 

 the Commissioners, immediately proceeded on 

 board, accompanied by the President and other 

 Members of the Council of the Victorian Acclima- 

 tisation Society. 



Two of the small packages of Salmon Ova having 

 been anxiously inspected by these gentlemen, they 

 were gratified by discovering that a large propor- 

 tion of them appeared to be in a sound and healthy 

 condition, notwithstanding the long and disastrous 

 voyage to which they had been exposed. 



