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Weight of Carp. In England and France, carp 

 seldom exceed ten pounds. In Germany they are 

 monstrous. One was taken at Dertz which weighed 

 thirty-eight pounds. In Prussia they frequently 

 weigh forty, and in the Volga they are five feet 

 long. One caught near Frankfort on the Oder, was 

 nine feet long, and three feet in width, weighing se- 

 venty pounds. Lake Zug, in Switzerland, produces 

 carps of ninety pounds ; and in the Dniester, some 

 had been taken, of which knife-handles are made 

 with the scales. Carp do not arrive at this pro- 

 digious size until they are of a very advanced 

 age. Donovan. 



They are sometimes caught in Lago di Como, 

 in Italy, weighing two hundred pounds. Mrs, 

 Garrick said she had seen in her country, Italy, a 

 head of a carp served up at table sufficient to fill 

 a large dish. 



Dr. Block records a carp taken in the domains 

 of Count de Schulenbourg, in Saxony, that 

 weighed thirty-two pounds ; but Jovius, and an- 

 cient writers, mention some much larger. 



Carp in warm climates often arrive at the 

 length of two, three, or four feet ; and weigh, 

 from twenty to thirty or forty pounds. 



Shaw's Zoology. 



