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pond, they perceive a minute fish, here and there, and in 

 the course of three weeks the pond is swarming. 



Eemy, Gehin, you have acquired a never-dying fame, 

 you are the benefactors of mankind. The news flies, — 

 Department after Department echoes the report, — the 

 Court and the philosophic schools take up the subject, — 

 Commissioners are appointed to visit the spot, see with 

 their own eyes, understand with their own hearts. But 

 ah ! it is no new thing, says one ; no new discovery, says 

 another, — I have tried the experiment. And thus some 

 few of the savans who had not learned the best of all les- 

 sons, truth, endeavour to rob these poor men of the 

 honour of the discovery. 'Tis no use ! The good and 

 honourable overcome the base and dishonourable, and 

 these poor but honest and intelligent men are rewarded 

 by the protection of the powerful, the esteem of the good, 

 and their names recorded as the discoverers of the art, 

 They dine at the Emperor's table, and are welcomed at 

 the houses of the good and wise. 



A few words as regards the happy results of the dis- 

 covery. The Government of France, truly valuing its im- 

 portance, have spared no expense in carrying out the 

 artificial system. On various rivers and canals, the opera^ 

 tion is carried on most extensively and successfully. They 

 have also a splendid Piscatorial College at Paris, where 

 the process is carried on and studied, and which is an 

 object of curiosity to all visitors. 



Thus it may be said, that France is under the obliga- 

 tion to these two m..n, for the preservation of that which 

 forms a chief article of food for the people of tliat country. 



As regards England, she has greatly benefitted by the 



