AND GLEANINGS. 



of spawn, for this purpose, forms an important 

 branch of trade in China. Vide in this book fish 

 in China. Lit. Gems. 



In China, in the month of May, a great num- 

 ber of ships are employed by the country people 

 in the sale of fish spawn, which they sell to mer- 

 chants by measure, and send it into the country 

 to stock ponds, &c. &c. 



Gr 'osier, Desc. de la Chine, vol. i. 



Dr. Bradley, professor of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Cambridge, in his " Treatise on Hus- 

 bandry," speaks of having hatched the spawn of 

 fish in earthen pans filled with water, having a 

 coat of earth at the bottom ; adding fresh river 

 water every other day, with wheat flour, grated 

 bread for roach, dace, bleak, &c. besides pike, 

 eel, and flounders, in other pans. 



Gent. Mag. Ixxiii. 1108. 



Blumenbach, in his " Manual of Natural His- 

 tory," mentions the reproductive power, and inde- 

 pendent vitality, with reference to the amphibia. 

 The extraordinary strength of the reproductive 

 power in several amphibia, and the astonishing 

 facility with which the process is carried on, de- 

 pend, if I mistake not, on the great magnitude 

 of their nerves, and the diminitive proportion of 

 their brain, &c. &c. 



