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fifteen fathom deep : and when they are laid on 

 shore, they seem to be of great bulk ; but crushed 

 together, will be transported in a very small room. 



Experiment solitary touching sea-jish put in fresh 

 waters. 



703. It seemeth that fish that are used to the salt 

 water, do nevertheless delight more in fresh. We 

 see, that salmons and smelts love to get into rivers, 

 though it be against the stream. At the haven of 

 Constantinople you shall have great qantities of fish 

 that come from the Euxine sea, that when they come 

 into the fresh water, do inebriate, and turn up their 

 bellies, so as you may take them with your hand. I 

 doubt there hath not been sufficient experiment made 

 of putting sea-fish into fresh water ponds, and pools. 

 It is a thing of great use and pleasure ; for so you 

 may have them new at some good distance from the 

 sea : and besides, it may be, the fish will eat the 

 pleasanter, and may fall to breed. And it is said, 

 that Colchester oysters, which are put into pits, where 

 the sea goeth and cometh, but yet so that there is a 

 fresh water coming also to them when the sea void- 

 eth, become by that means fatter, and more grown. 



Experiment solitary touching attraction by similitude 

 of substance. 



704. The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible 

 shoot; insomuch as it hath been known, that the arrow 

 hath pierced a steel target, or a piece of brass of two 

 inches thick : but that which is more strange, the ar- 



