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one, and the gentlemen who had come to this country, 
having a special knowledge of these subjects, had many 
of them attended previous Conferences in other countries 
on various fishery questions, of which they at the Foreign 
Office heard a great deal, because fisheries had not un- 
frequently been the cause of international difficulties 
and disputes. He had recently seen a statement to the 
effect that fish diet exercised a very cooling effect on those 
who used it, and that if people really wanted to be well, 
especially in warm weather, they should eat fish. He 
sometimes thought, at the Foreign Office, that perhaps 
fishermen did not eat fish themselves, and that some of 
these fishery disputes of which they heard there, and which 
gave them a great deal of trouble, might be settled if they 
were to suggest to the fishermen that they should all eat 
the fish which they caught ; perhaps then they would not 
engage in those disputes on the high seas which very fre- 
quently gave the Foreign Office of this and other countries 
a deal of trouble. Having thrown out this suggestion, he 
would call upon Mr. Davey to read the first Paper, which 
was in the name of Professor Smitt, the delegate of Sweden, 
who did not consider himself sufficiently familiar with the 
English language to read it himself He should also add 
that, owing to the number of Papers dealing with these 
foreign fisheries, some of them would have to be adjourned 
to a future occasion. 
The Paper was as follows : — 
During the last seventy years Sweden has enjoyed, 
under its present line of sovereigns, profound peace, and the 
exhortation of one of its poets, “to replace lost Finland 
within the boundary of Sweden,” has been the device of the 
country. And, indeed, it has made great progress towards 
that aim. In the arts and sciences the names of Swedish 
