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To shew the value of the artificial rearing of the salmon, 

 the following circumstance, ■will, I hope, be sufficient to 

 convince the most sceptical. And if such vast results pro- 

 ceed from the culture of a single river, what may not be 

 done, with such immense resources as we have. But to 

 the point — ^Mr. Boswell has informed me, that his brother, 

 John Boswell, Esq., Attorney at Law, of the City of 

 Dublin, four years since purchased in the Encumbered Es- 

 tates Court, a barren river, or rather a fishery, or what had 

 once been one, for the purpose of breeding and rearing of 

 salmon ; so successful was he in stocking the river, that in 

 October last, (1856,) he sold his rights to a London Com- 

 pany, and ckarcd nme thoitsand pounds sterling by the 

 operation. 



If such facts as these fail to induce our Legislature to 

 do their duty, all the reasonings that I can bring to bear 

 on the subject, will be of little or no avail; however,- 1 

 shall have done my duty. 



Journeying onward we reach the Portneuf, where for- 

 merly salmon were taken in abundance, — ^latterly but 

 few have been captured. The artificial propagation, 

 could be carried on in this river under very favorably 

 auspices, as there is very fine ground well adapted foi 

 this purpose. 



River St. Anne is not inferior to the Jacques Cartier, as 

 a salmon river, indeed the river is in every respect longer 

 and larger, with a greater bulk of water. Bouchette says; — r 

 , "It is about 10 miles long, and its branches may be said 

 to drain 1750 square miles of land. Salmon fishing in the 

 St. Anne is very considerable, and might be improved to 

 great profit." The principal cause of the destruction of th« 



