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salt fishing, should be furnished with blank log-books and charts 
gratis. Discoveries of fishing grounds or other useful informa¬ 
tion touching the fisheries, should be freely disseminated in an¬ 
nual reports among our fishermen. It is time that organic 
measures should be inaugurated. Congress should move ear¬ 
nestly in the matter, to the end that the fisheries of our country 
may be properly developed. 
CONCLUSION. 
The humble suggestions herein submitted are founded on ob¬ 
servations noted in different countries during the past forty 
years. We commend them to the careful attention of thinking 
minds, in the hope that a more liberal policy may be adopted in 
behalf of our fishing industry, our depressed shipping in gen¬ 
eral, and the Northwest Coast in particular. 
“ Westward the course of Empire takes its way, 
The first four acts already past; 
The fifth shall crown the drama of the day, 
Time’s noblest offspring is the last.” 
POSTSCRIPT. 
In describing the northwest coast and the shores of Siberia, 
we have undertaken “ a big thing 100,000 miles of shore line 
laved with the warm stream from Japan, and teeming with visi¬ 
ble and invisible treasures, forms a large subject to be demon- 
stated in a pamphlet of one hundred pages. During our voyag¬ 
ing on the North Pacific we have visited many places and wit¬ 
nessed some of the resources herein set forth. In confirmation 
of our observations we have quoted well known authorities : 
Prof. Davidson, Superintendent of the Pacific Coast Survey, 
Generals Thomas and Davis, of the United States army, have 
been cited extensively. 
In demonstrating Puget Sound and its beautiful scenery and 
climate, we have drawn much on Wilkes, Davidson, Stevens, 
Flanders, Evans, Garfield and other experts. In behalf of the 
heroic fishermen of ancient and modern times, we have mainly 
relied on Hons. Henry Wheaton and Lorenzo Sabine. We are 
conscious of many defects which we hope to amend. We earnestly 
invite the co-operation of intelligent fishermen to the end, that 
this work may contribute to the proper development of our 
fisheries. J. L. McDONALD. 
Gloucester, Mass., Nov. 3, 1871. 
