LAND AND WATER COMPARED. 5 



to our race — but how little do we know of the 

 inhabitants of the water ! Man has dominion 

 given him over both land and water. Of 

 the former he has taken every advantage ; 

 from the earliest days there have been agri- 

 culturists, or land farmers. The human race, 

 however, seem to have entirely forgotten the 

 second item in the double privilege given 

 them ; they take no pains to cultivate the 

 largest portion of their earth — the waters. 

 Who ever heard of an a^w^culturist or water 

 farmer? We have been asleep — ^we have 

 had gold nuggets under our noses, and have 

 not stooped to pick them up. 



" All that glitters is not gold," nor, again, 

 are seemingly worthless things to be despised 

 as valueless. Tons of fish, worth thousands 

 of pounds, only want a net placed round 



