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says, through the retention, beyond the day fixed for 

 sailing, by more than a month at Plymouth, I be- 

 lieve, of the ship, on board of which impregnated 

 salmon ova were placed in tanks prepared with due 

 care. This is not to occur in a second attempt, 

 about to be made shortly. I have not any thing like 

 implicit faith in the success of transplanting salmon 

 from the rivers of this country to those of the anti- 

 podes, either by means of impregnated ova or living 

 fish, young or adult. I repeat what I said once be- 

 fore, that if the rivers of Van Diemen's Land are to 

 be stocked with salmon, it will be from impregnated 

 ova or living fish, procured from the river Sacra- 

 mento, in California. The transit from that country 

 is by one-half, shorter than it is from any of the 

 British ports. 



What the English Government has neglected to 

 do, its subjects are now doing. An influential asso- 

 ciation for breeding salmon artificially has been form- 

 ed in Scotland, at the head of which are the Duke 

 of Athol and the Earl of Mansfield. They have 

 begun, we believe, for now is the time, their opera- 

 tions in the Tay and its tributaries. The Messrs. 

 Edmund and Thomas Ashworth, of Egerton Hall, 

 Bolton, have purchased, in the Court for the sale of 

 Encumbered Estates in Ireland, " A salmon fishery, 

 extending from Lough Corrib to the sea," and have 

 made experiments at Outerard, Co. G-alway, in a re- 

 port on which, signed W. H. Halliday, and dated 

 Galway, 4th July, 1853, it is considered that there 



