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Class IV. CARP. 355 



They are alio extremely tenacious of life, and 

 will live for a mod remarkable time out of water. 

 An experiment has been made by placing a carp in 

 a net, well wrapped up in wet mofs, the mouth 

 only remaining out, and then hung up in a cel- 

 lar, or fome cool place : the fifh is frequently fed 

 with white bread and milk, and is befides often 

 plunged into water. Carp thus managed have been 

 known, not only to have lived above a fortnight, 

 but to grow exceedingly fat, and far fuperior in 

 tafte to thofe that are immediately killed from the 

 pond *. 



The carp is a prodigious breeder: its quantity Foecundx.- 

 of roe has been fometimes found fo great, that 

 when taken out and weighed againlt the fifh itfelf, 

 the former has been found to preponderate. From 

 the fpawn of this fifh Caviare is made for the 

 Jews, who hold this ilurgeon in abhorrence. We 

 have forbore in this work to enter into minute cal- 

 culations of the numbers each fifh may produce. 

 It has already been mod fkilfully performed by 

 Mr. Harmer, and printed in the Pbilofophical Tran- 

 faffions of the year 1767. We fhall, in our Ap- 

 pendix, take the liberty of borrowing fuch part of 

 his tables of the fcecundity of fifh, as will deriion- 

 ftrate the kind attention of Providence, towards the 



* This was told me by a gentleman of the utmoft vera- 

 city, who had twice made the experiment. The fame fad 

 is related by that pious Philofopher Doctor Derbam, in his 

 Pkjjiio -Theology, edit. 9th. 1737, c &* *• /• 7- *• e - 



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