COMMON TROUT. !)") 



" SECTION VI. 



" 1 . According to the course of nature, no T routs or Sal- 

 mon are generated in ponds or standing waters. 



" 2. They cannot be bred there if millions of pregnant 

 eggs were put into them. 



" 3. The young Trouts have, in the first two or three 

 weeks, great tenacity of life, for after the head is dead, the 

 body will live two days before they are quite dead ; this is to 

 be understood of healthy fish, kept in a current of fresh run- 

 ning water. 



" 4. Although the young Trout love to swim with the cur- 

 rent within the six weeks out of their breeding trough, yet 

 they can be kept within them six or more weeks longer, by 

 particular management. 



"5. They are not easily caught, on account of their small 

 size and rapid motion, notwithstanding they may be collected 

 in a pail. 



" 6. They may then be put into proper water, or can be 

 put through a funnel into bottles, and carried to any part 

 provided the water don^t freeze. 



" 7. The ripe eggs of a Trout, after they are four or five 

 days apparently dead, and gone into a kind of putrefaction, 

 so that the stench is intolerable, may yet be recovered and 

 bred out into fishes. 



" 8. The eggs of Trouts will not produce fishes so long as 

 they remain connected with the egg stock. 



" 9. The natural causes, why it is possible that a hen may 

 bring a live chicken into the world may very easily be ac- 

 counted for, from observations I have made in the breeding 

 of Trouts. 



" 10. The natural disposition of the animalcule of the 

 sperma, which enters the egg, may be considerably increased. 



"II. I have made many experiments, in which I found 



