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1 7. Trout may alfo be bred and multiplied in 

 the fame manner. 



I fhall only obferve, that their eggs and 

 milts are ripe and abundant, in the months of 

 December and January ; and as trout are fmaller 

 than falmon, it is therefore more eafy * to ex- 

 traft their eggs and milt, without endangering 

 their lives. , 



1 8. Fifhes do not couple together, for the pur- 

 pofe of generation, as other animals do ; their 

 eggs are not fecundated by the males, before they 

 are dropped. 



19. Trout's eggs, efpecially if they are come to 

 maturity, are quite feparate from one another, as 

 likewife, from every other part of the fifh, and are 

 covered with a very hard ikin or fhell. There is 

 not then much circulation, If any at all remains, 

 between the liquids of the fifh, and thofe of the 

 egg. Accordingly, trout's eggs do not putrify as 

 foon as the fifh ; and I have feen eggs, that were 

 kept found for four or five days, after the fifh was 

 putrified. 



20. To convince myfelf of this by experience, 

 I took the ripe eggs of a trout, that had died four 

 days before, and which was quite putrified and 

 {linking. I covered them with the milt of a live 



* It is not eafy to comprehend the reafon of this greater 

 facility, unlefs it be, that trout, being fmaller than falmon, can 

 be held with greater eafe over the veflel, that receives the eggs 

 and milt, and that they ftruggle lefs. 



male, 



