354 CAR P. Class IV. 



RuJJta wants thefe fifh at this day, Sweden has 

 them only in the ponds of the people of fafhion j 

 Polijh Pruffia is the chief feat of the carp •, they 

 abound in the rivers and lakes of that country, 

 particularly in the Frifch and Curifch-haff, where they 

 are taken of a vaft fize. They are there a great 

 article of commerce, and fent in well-boats to 

 Sweden and Rujfia. The merchants purchafe them 

 out of the waters of the noblejfe of the country, who 

 draw a good revenue from this article. Neither 

 are there wanting among our gentry, infiances of 

 fome who make good profit of their ponds. 



The antients do not feparate the carp from the fea 

 fifti. We are credibly informed that they are fome- 

 times found in the harbor of Dantzick, between the 

 town and a fmall place called Hela. 



Carp are very long-lived. Gefner* brings an irt- 

 ftance of one that was an hundred years old. They 

 alfo grow to a very great fize. On our own know- 

 ledge we can fpeak of none that exceeded twenty 

 pounds in weight : but Jovius^ fays, that they were 

 fometimes taken in the Lactts Larius (the Lago di 

 Como) of two hundred pounds weight : and Rzac- 

 zynfki X mentions others taken in the Dniefter that 

 were five feet in length. 



4 1 know and have provyd. But well I wote that the redde 

 4 worm , and the menow ben good baytyn for him at all 

 4 tymes, as I have herd faye of perfones credyble, and alfo 

 4 founde wryten in bekes of credence. 



* Gffner pifc. 312. i De pi/cibm Romanis, 1 3 1 . 



X Hifi* Nat. Poloni*, 1 42. 



They 



