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14. It will be neceffary to repeat this manoeu- 

 vre twice a week, or at leaft once a week ; and by 

 paddling with your wooden flice in all parts, you 

 will bring the water upon the eggs into motion ; for 

 let the water be ever fo clear, there will adhere to 

 the eggs, in a few days, a fubtle filth, which lays 

 the foundation to their corruption, even when the 

 fifh is already alive in the egg ; therefore it is 

 neceffary to cleanfe them by this gentle means. 

 They may be clean fed alfo with a feather. 



1 5. After the eggs have been about three weeks 

 in this ftate, one may perceive through the hard 

 ikin, a divided black fpot, which are the the eggs 

 of the young fifh ; the body is too tranfparent to 

 be feen with the naked eye, but after four weeks, 

 if you fqueeze one of the eggs between your fin- 

 gers, you will fee the fifh make a motion and turn 

 within, then you may perceive his form. However, 

 the time neceffary for the forming of young fal- 

 mon, is not always the fame. If the water of the 

 ftream be warm, lefs time is requifite : there is a 

 difference alfo, according to the temperature of 

 the air. 



At laft, after lying fome weeks in this ftate, and 

 under a continual current of running water, the 

 young fifties will bore their heads through the 

 fhell of the egg, and under motion with their bo- 

 dies will, in about half an hour, free themfelves 

 entirely from the (hell, with the yolk of the mother 

 egg hanging to their bellies like a fmall bag ; as 



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