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Class IV. CARP. 355 



They are alfo extremely tenacious of life, and 

 will live for a moft remarkable time out of water. 

 An experiment has been made by placing a carp in 

 a net, well wrapped up in wet mofs, the mouth 

 only remaining out, and then hung up in a cel- 

 lar, or fome cool place : the fifli is frequently fed 

 with white bread and milk, and is befides often 

 plunged into water. Carp thus managed have been 

 known, not only to have lived above a fortnight, 

 but to grow exceedingly fat, and far fuperior in 

 tafte to thofe that are immediately killed from the 

 pond *. 



The carp is a prodigious b^-eeder: its quantity Foecundj- 

 of roe has been fometimes found fo great, that 

 when taken out and weighed againft the fifh itfelf, 

 the former has been found to preponderate. From 

 the fpawn of this fifh Caviare is made for the 

 Jews^ who hold this fturgeon in abhorrence. We 

 have forbore in this work to enter into minute cal- 

 culations of the numbers each fifh may produce. 

 It has already been moft Ikilfully performed by 

 Mr. Harmer^ and printed in the Philofophical Tran- 

 fa^iions of the year 1767. We fhall, in our Ap- 

 pendix, take the liberty of borrowing fuch part of 

 his tables of the foecundity of fiih, as will demon- 

 ftrate the kind attention of Providence, towards the 



* This was told me by a gentleman of the utmoil vera- 

 city, who had twice made the experiment. The fame fa(ft 

 is related by that pious Philcfopher Dodor Derham^ in his 

 PhyJicO'Theolo^y, edit. 9th. 1737, ^^* ^* /• /• ^- ^' 



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