Clafs IV. BS A ee 301 
As to the two laft articles we have fome doubts, 
the others we believe to be true. Ruffia wants thefe 
fifth at this day ; Sweden has them only in the ponds 
of the people of fafhion ; Polifh Pruffia is the chief 
feat of the carp; they abound in the rivers and 
lakes of that country, particularly in the Fri/ch 
and Curi/ch-baff, where they are taken of a vaft fize. 
They are there a great article of commerce, and 
fent in well-boats to Sueden and Rufia. ‘The mer- 
chants purchafe them out of the waters of the xo- 
bleffe of the country, who draw a good revenue from 
this article. Neither are there wanting among our 
gentry, inftances of fome who make good profit of 
their ponds. 
The antients do not feparate the carp from the 
fea fith. We are credibly informed that they are 
fometimes found in the harbor of Dantzick, between - 
the town and a fmall place called Heda. | 
Carp are very long lived. Ge/ner™ brings an in- 
ftance of one that was an hundred years old. They 
alfo crow to a very great fize. On our own know- 
lece we can fpeak of none that exceeded twenty 
pounds in weight; but Yovrus** fays, that they 
were fometimes taken in the Lacus Larius (the Lago 
di Como) of two hundred pounds weight; and 
Rzaczynfki+, mentions others taken in the Dwiefter 
that were five feet in length. 
They are alfo extremely tenacious of life, and 
will live for a moft remarkable time out of water. 
* Gefuer pifce 312. 
** De pifcibus Romanis. 131. 
+ Hit. Nat. Polonia. 142. 
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