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upon it, and so it becomes in a short time to be a 

 living fish : and, as I told you, it is thought the 

 Carp does this several months in the year ; and most 

 believe that most fish breed after this manner, ex- 

 cept the Eel. And it has been observed, that when 

 the spawner has weakened herself by doing that 

 natural office, that two or three melters have helped 

 her from off the weeds by bearing her up on both 

 sides, and guarding her into the deep. And you 

 may note, that though this may seem a curiosity 

 not worth observing, yet others have judged it 

 worth their time and costs to make glass-hives, 

 and order them in such a manner as to see how 

 bees have bred and made their honey-combs, and 

 how they have obeyed their king, and governed 

 their commonwealth. But it is thought that all 

 Carps are not bred by generation, but that some 

 breed other ways, as some Pikes do. 



The physicians make the galls and stones in the 

 heads of Carps to be very medicinable. But 'tis 

 not to be doubted but that in Italy they make great 

 profit of the spawn of Carps, by selling it to the 

 Jews, who make it into Red Caviare, the Jews not 

 being by their law admitted to eat of Caviare made 

 of the Sturgeon, that being a fish that wants scales, 

 and, as may appear in Levit. xi. 10, by them reputed 

 to be unclean. 



Much more might be said out of him, and out 

 of Aristotle, which Dubravius often quotes in his 

 Discourse of Fishes ; but it might rather perplex 



