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Various sizes in various places. 



frontiers of Poinerania, one was caught weigh- 

 ing thirty-eight pounds. In 1711, another was 

 taken at Bishopshausen, near Frankfort on the 

 Oder, measuring two ells and a half in length, 

 and one in breadth ; it weighed seventy pounds, 

 and the scales were as large as a shilling. Mrs. 

 Garrick informed Sir John Hawkins, that she 

 had seen, in her own country (Italy), the head 

 of a carp served up at table, sufficient to fill a 

 large dish. fylr. Ladbroke, from his park at 

 Gatton, presented Lord Egremont with a brace 

 that weighed thirty-five jjounds, as specimens, 

 to ascertain whether the Surry could not vie with 

 the Sussex carp. In 179S, at the fishing of the 

 large piece of water at Stourhtad, where a thou- 

 sand brace of killing carp were taken, the largest 

 was thirty inches long, upwards of twenty-two 

 broad, and weighed eighteen pounds. In the 

 river Dniester, they grow to such a size that knife 

 handles are made of their bones. 



Carp are supposed to have been brought to 

 this country by Leonard Mascal, a Sussex gen- 

 tleman, (in which county, perhaps, this fish 

 abounds, more than in any other), about the year 

 1514, and it is remarked in an old distich, enu- 

 merating some good things, of which this island 

 was destitute prior to that period, that 



" Turkies, carps, hops, peckcrcll, and beer, 

 Carne into England all in one year." 



This, however, the Rev. Mr, Daniel, in his 



