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the strong attraction of being a capital sporting fish, 

 taking both fly and worm freely, and playing like a 

 fresh-run sea-trout when hooked. Whether the fish 

 would stand our winters is the question to be resolved ; 

 in other respects, some of our streams in Cornwall or 

 South Devon, for example, might suit it well enough. 

 Its capabilities, also, of being transported and accli- 

 matised at any distance, have also to be tested. Of 

 its desirableness there can be no shadow of a doubt ; 

 and it might further be worthy of consideration, 

 whether even if our winters did not suit it, it would 

 not be the very fish particularly suited to the fine, 

 but fishless streams of the Cape and many of the 

 Australian streams, both of which, like those of 

 Jamaica, become rather water-holes in summer. 



There is another fish which might do in rivers 

 of a similar character, viz. the Murray-cod. This 

 fish is spoken highly of in Australia, and it grows 

 to a large size. The Acclimatisation Society of 

 Great Britain made an attempt to introduce it, but 

 the experiment was not well managed, and so failed. 

 It might, perhaps, be more feasible first to try it at 

 the Cape, and if it succeeded there, we should have 

 a better chance of getting it thence to England by 

 greatly shortening the sea-voyage ; and if it did not 

 succeed there, it would be useless to try it here. 

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