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of the country, that it is oviparous, having melt 

 and roe, like other fishes. He has traced them 

 down to the brackish water, whither they go 

 generally, though not universally, to deposit their 

 spawn, and he has followed the young in their 

 extraordinary spring journeys up the great rivers, 

 and into the brooks and rivulets in which they 

 seek out for themselves appropriate haunts. In 

 numbers they are immensurable ; the shoals ad- 

 vance up the stream, forming a black line along 

 the shore ; nor are these journeys confined to the 

 water, they cross fields, and climb posts and pales, 

 in order to reach the place of their destination. 

 Brit. Association, Cambridge, July 13, 1833. 



Eel Ponds. Several ponds are appropriated 

 in England to the raising of eels, and considerable 

 numbers are taken in the Thames, and other rivers, 

 but by far the largest portion come from Holland. 



Hermaphrodites. In the Transactions of the 

 Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, is an 

 account of an eel, gadus lota, in which eggs and 

 soft row were found at the same time. It is by 

 Professor /. G. Pipping. 



On the river, near Hasted, a large eel was 

 caught, which measured five feet nine inches in 

 length, and eighteen inches girth ; and weighed 

 upwards of forty Ibs. Hastens Kent. 



