PISCATORIAL REMINISCENCES 



Cockle, Eel, 



Muscle, Hound, 



Shrimp, Flounder, 



Salmon, Plaise, 



Trout, Sole, 



Turbot Ray, 



Mackerel, Mullet, 



Cod, Bass, 



Whiting, Gurnard, 



Colefish, Ballan, 



Bibb, Trout. 

 Herring, Gent. Mag. 



HATCHING SPAWN OF FISH. 



The Chinese have a method of hatching the 

 spawn of fish, and thus protecting it from those 

 accidents which ordinarily occur to so large a 

 portion of it. The fishermen collect, with care, 

 on the margin and surface of the waters, all those 

 gelatinous masses which contain the spawn of 

 fish. After they have found a sufficient quantity, 

 they fill with it the shell of a fresh hen's egg, 

 which they have previously emptied, stop up the 

 holes, and put it under a sitting fowl. At the 

 expiration of a certain number of days, they 

 break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The 

 young fry are presently hatched, and are kept 

 in pure fresh water till they are large enough to 

 be thrown into a pond with the old fish. The sale 



