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spring- wagon, then place on the carpet as many fish as it 

 will accommodate without finning each other. They should 

 then be covered with another carpet or blankets dripping 

 wet, on which is placed another layer of fish, and so on 

 until five hundred or even a thousand are so packed. For 

 the information of those who live near Philadelphia, I 

 would say, that an old man known as " Toney," and his 

 partner, young Krumbar, who live in the small street 

 nearest the Schuylkill between Race and Vine, and at the 

 corner of a court running towards the river, will supply 

 live catfish to those who want them. These men keep 

 them in live boxes and supply them at the moderate price 

 of a dollar and fifty cents per hundred. 



The Acclimatization Society of England have gone to a 

 large expenditure of time, labor, and money to introduce 

 into their waters a large species (I believe the only one of 

 this family in Europe), silurus giants, or Sheat fish, bring- 

 ing it over land from the Argisch, a tributary of the 

 Danube, the distance of eighteen hundred miles. It is 

 said that this fish has attained the size of fifty-four pounds 

 in four years, and in extreme cases has weighed as much as 

 two hundred pounds. A drawing of this fish shows a wide 

 dissimilarity to our Siluroids; its fins having no sharp spines, 

 the dorsal, anal, and caudal being continuous and joining, 

 as is the case with the eel. Mr. Francis Francis, the 

 piscicultural director of the English Acclimatization So- 

 ciety, says : " One of the greatest wants felt in this coun- 

 try (England) has been a good pond or lake fish that 

 might be turned to actual account, in order that the huge 



