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ed, that the young of the Eel is produced by spawn, 

 as of most other fishes. During the night, Eels 

 frequently leave the water, and crawl through the 

 grass ; the writer recollects, that, when a boy, he 

 found an Eel crawling in a meadow near Swanage, 



COMMON EEL (Anguilla Acutirostriy). 



one evening at haymaking time, a considerable dis- 

 tance from any water. Mr. Yarrell mentions two 

 Eels which weighed respectively twenty-seven, and 

 twenty-three, pounds. 



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