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that successive seasons bring to our shores, — should it 

 tend to bring about a determined expression of opinion on 

 the part of the legislature and the people, — that the seed of 

 the salmon shall be protected ; and that seed time shall be 

 given, to vivify and bring it into life, — should it tend to 

 destroy every spear and negog in the country, and to the 

 giving the fish a right of way ^ up every river in the province, 

 — should it tend to abolish the use of the illegal net, and 

 lead to the adoption of seines of the proper sized mesh ; to 

 the encouragement of the valuable artificial process, to the 

 propagation of the salmon of the Lower, and the salmon- 

 trout of the Upper province — I shall be indeed well repaid, 

 and I shall be thankful, that I have been permittedto be 

 the instrument of some little good, to the inhabitants of a 

 country, among whom I have found niany friends. 



I have ever considered it a duty we owe to each other, 

 and to society, to endeavour to efiect what possible good 

 lay in our power. "We are all endowed more or less with 

 some peculiar talent, which we are called upon to exercise ; 

 and, where a great public good is concerned, we ought to 

 use every energy to accomplish it. Here is a great public 

 question. Shall the Fisheries be protected ? Reader, I 

 have done my duty ! Do thou go, " and do likewise." 



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