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male, far exceeds the weight of her body. It is 

 also believed that they may live to more than two 

 hundred years. 



Though denominated the wise, on account 

 of its sagacity, yet in the spawning season it will 

 allow the angler to tickle its sides, and is thus 

 easily captured by hand. The sale of carp has 

 constituted a part of the revenues of the nobility 

 and gentry in Prussia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, 

 Saxony, Bohemia, Mechlenburg and Holstein, — 

 in all of which places, the rearing of this fish is re- 

 garded with peculiar interest. We do not know 

 why carp may not be introduced and naturalized 

 here, and become as great a source of profit. 



There are basins of water in every direction, in 

 the immediate vicinity of Boston, of no kind of 

 use whatever, at present, that might become 

 most valuable appendages to an estate, by stock- 

 ing them with pickerel or carp. 



GEN. CYPRINUS. 



Golden Carp, — Cyprinus Auratus. The 

 gold fish was introduced into this country, many 

 years since, from England, especially for orna- 

 ment. It is a native of China, in the province of 

 Chekyang ; and persons of distinction, all over 

 the Celestial Empire, rear them in vases, some of 

 which are very costly. 



