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much she has been libelled by those feeble drivellers, 

 who have voted her incompetent to discharge the 

 functions which constitute the chief end and object 

 of her existence. Give us these provisions, ye men 

 of tanks and incubators ! ye philosophers of conjec- 

 ture and romance ! ye novelists and theorizers ! Grant 

 to the salmon one-half the chance you give to your 

 pigs, your cattle, your poultry, or your game, and 

 let us see whether she forms the only exception to 

 that noble and beneficent ordination of Providence 

 which has formed every animal perfect in its kind, 

 and has given it the instincts and the capacity to 

 accomplish worthily and effectively the purposes for 

 which it was created. 



Feb. 18th, 1854. Salmo. 



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