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the market on any day we like to sell them; and if we 

 do not. sell them, why, we shall not lose hy keeping 

 them, for they cost us no money to feed, as do bullocks 

 or sheep. If we have enough to export, they are a 

 source of exchange and wealth, and wiU relieve our 

 overtaxed industry : or, at least, the effect of a large 

 introduction of fish into our home provision-loarkets 

 would speedUy influence the price of every other 

 production. 



I have, in the foregoing pages, hriefly reviewed 

 the subject of our fisheries, and pointed out the 

 various means which may be employed, and the best 

 kind of investigations to make, and of experiments 

 to conduct, in order that they may become a great 

 mine of wealth to us; and I trust that the ex- 

 planations and advice I have here offered may be 

 found useful to those who are studying this question 

 with the same views and wishes as mysel£ 



