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the youngest, and the price the lowest. Many rivers that 

 I have not enumerated, are to be found in each district ; 

 but I have chosen the principal in each. It will also be 

 perceived that I have attached no value to most of the 

 rivers of the upper waters. It would not be well to do so, 

 as here, the artificial process would be required before they 

 would come to be of value. 



In the other districts, it would only be necessary to 

 afibrd the proper protection, and I would observe that the 

 laws should be strictly' enforced — no reserve. Where a 

 breach of the law takes place, punishment should follow. 



It gives me great pleasure to be able to. lay before my 

 readers, the following valuable article, which I have copied 

 from that highly intellectual work, " Chambers Journal," 

 to which my attention was directed by a friend a few days 

 since, and which cannot fail to give bolh pleasure and 

 instruction. 



I am happy to be able to copy it, as it proves that my 

 calculations are based on a good, true, and solid foundation. 



PISCIC0LTUEE OE THE BREEDING OF PISHES. 

 " It is not so generally known as it ought to be, that eflforts are 

 being made upon a considerable scale to augment our supply of 

 salmon by means of artificial hatching and breeding. This mode 

 of increasing our stock of fish is denominated pisciculture by our 

 allies the French, and has been practised in Prance for some years, 

 particularly by the late Joseph Remy and his coadjutor M. Gehin, 

 who, strange to say, rediscovered this art in 1842, unaware that 

 it was supposed to have been well known among the ancient 

 Romans, or that it had been carried on by modern naturalists for 

 more than a century. The early Romans, we are told, knew and 

 cultivated the art extensively; and not being contented with mere- 

 ly breeding fish, they studied also how to impart new flavours 



