172 on the generation of fifbes: Oct. 2. 
Yet lab’ring well his little spot of ground, 
Some scatt’ring pot herbs here and there he found : 
Which, cultivated with his daily care, 
And bruis’d with vervain, were his frugal fare. 
Sometimes white lilies did their leaves afford, 
With wholesome poppie flowers to mend his homely board 
For late returning home he sup’d at ease, 
And wisely deem’d the wealth of monarchs lefs, i 
Than little of his own, decause his own did please. 
To quit his care, he gather’d first of all, 
In spring the roses, apples in the fall: 
And when cold winter split the rocks in twain, 
And ice the running rivers did restrain, 
He stript the bears foot of its leafy growth, 
And, calling western winds, accus’d the spring of sloth. 
He therefore first among the swains was found, 
To reap the product of his,labour’d ground, i 
And squeese the combs with golden liquor crown’d. 
His limes were first in flower, his lofty pines, 
With friendly, fhade, secur’d his tender vines. 
For ev’ry bloom his trees in spring afford, 
An autumn apple was by tale restor’d ; 
He knew to rank his elms in even rows, 
For fruit the grafted pear tree to dispose : t 
And tame to plumbs the sournefs of the sloes, 
With spreading planes he made a cool retreat, 
To fhade good fellows from the summer’s heat. 
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INTELLIGENCE FROM INDIA. 
in the xi. volume of the Bee, p.89.was given 4n account of some very 
singular facts respecting the generation of fifhes in India, which 
_ appeared so extraordinary as to require farther elucidation before 
they could be admitted as certain. The Editor indeed has recei- 
ved letters since that time from’persons who said they had 
been in India, flatly contradicting the whole account. The fol-~ 
lowing communication from Madras, received by the King George 
East Indiaman, will afford some satisfaction to our readers on’ this 
very curious subject. i 
The other subjects mentioned in this communication are-equally cu- 
rious and interesting. 
