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to the firft glance of the eye, that the herring pro- 

 duces, at leaft, as many eggs as the carp. M. Petit, 

 a celebrated praditioner in Surgery and Medicine, 

 has found, by experiment, that the two parcels of 

 eggs, of a carp eighteen inches long, weighed eight 

 ounces two drachms, which make four thoufand, 

 feven hundred and fifty-two grains ; and that it 

 required feventy-two of thefe eggs to make up the 

 weight of one grain ; which gives a produd of 

 three hundred forty-two thoufand, one hundred 

 and forty-four eggs, contained in one roe weighing 

 eight ounces and two drachms. 



I have been fomcwhat difFufe on the fubjeft of 

 this particular fpecies of fifh, not in the view of 

 promoting our commerce, which, by it's offices, 

 it's bounties, it's privileges, it's exclufions, renders 

 every article fcarce with which it intermeddles, but 

 in compaflion to the poorer part of the community, 

 reduced, in many places, to fubfift entirely on 

 bread, while Providence is beftowing on Europe, 

 in the richeft profufion, the moft delicate fifh, 

 perhaps, that fwims in the Sea*. We are not to 

 form our judgment from thofe that are brought to 

 Paris, after the feafon is over, and which are caught 



* More than one epicure has already made this obfervation : 

 but here is another, on which few are difpofed to dwell, it is 

 this, that in all cafes, and in all countries, thi ?noJi mnmoti things 

 are the bejl. 



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