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their transportation from Nova Scotia, as will suffice to establish the 

 possibility of the undertaking. It is my intention, should I succeed 

 in obtaining any support or encouragement from the Legislature of 

 New Jersey, to make the experiment in the tributaries of the Passaic ; 

 and should it be successful, I can only add that it will give me but too 

 much pleasure to assist any gentleman of spirit in procuring the means 

 of restocking any waters on which they may reside, with this most 

 u;;ime and noblest of fishes. 



