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male, and I got fifli out of them, juft as if the trout 

 had been alive. 



21. And whereas, the life of the animalcula of 

 the milt is not fo clofely connected with that of the 

 fifli, which produces them, that the death of the 

 fifli fliould caufe immediately the death of the ani- 

 malcula ; but on the contrary, the animalcula pre- 

 ferve life, and their reproductive power, as long as 

 the fluid, which contains them, does not contraft 

 any putrefa&ion : the following fort of paradox is 

 a fa& proved by theory and experience. 



22. Young trouts can be had by means of the 

 milts and eggs of trouts already dead, and partly 

 putrified. 



23. From the fa&s alledged it appears, that it 

 would be no hard matter to breed trouts in a place, 

 where there never had been any before. 



24. The example of mules among quadrupeds, 

 and of breams among fifties, fliews, that the mix- 

 ing of two fpecies produces a third one, which has 

 great affinity with the two firft. During the 

 months of November, December, and January, 

 falmon and trout have their eggs and milts in a ftate 

 of maturity. Thefe two fpecies then can be mixed, 

 and an experiment be made, if there can be pro- 

 duced filhes, that are neither trout nor falmon, 

 but a middle fort between both. 



25. We are not to conclude from this, that we 

 fhall breed falmon-trout ; for it will not conftitute 

 a different fpecies from the white trout. I havj 



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