REPORT ON ARTIFICIAL FISH-CULTURE. 57 



The more I reflect on the means of realizing 

 this useful enterprise, the more I consider it our 

 duty to insist that France shall take the lead 

 in giving a practical example of this great scien- 

 tific discovery which can so increase public wealth 

 by creating an inexhaustible means of production. 

 It is a wish I express with all confidence, because 

 I have visited the spots where the project has 

 already received an impetus under the auspices 

 of two engineers, who, notwithstanding their lim- 

 ited resources, have raised this year a million 

 of trout, salmon and mongrels, the greater portion 

 of which they showed me scattered through the 

 ponds which they have dug along the Rhone and 

 Rhine canal. 



It only remains to profit by the experience 

 and devotion of which they have, during two 

 years, given so many proofs, and to place in their 

 hands sufficient means to transform the precarious 

 arrangements due to their perseverance into a ver- 

 itable establishment where, as in the best regula- 

 ted manufactories, the working details are ample 

 and ready, 



The locality which they have chosen is admi- 

 rably well adapted to their purpose ; a stream of 

 fresh water, clear as crystal, runs from the foot 

 of a sheltering hillock on a common of several 

 acres, and then branches off into smaller streams. 



