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The Abbe therefore concludes, if Fifhes do not 
actually hear, ’tis for want' of proper Organs, and not 
bccaufe the Medium cannot convey Sounds. 
Our Author mentions the common Notion of 
Carp, and other Fifh, coming out of their Holes at 
the Sound of a Bell to be fed ; and adds a Story, 
which Mr. Boyle fomewherc relates, that. near Ge- 
neva a Man had a Fifh-pond, whofe Banks were fo 
high from the Plain on which it was, that one 
could not look over them into the Pond j and there- 
fore it was impoflible the Fifh could fee the Perfon 5 
yet they were at any time conven’d at certain Sounds 
by the Gardener, in order to be fed, as a credita- 
ble Perfon afferts. 
The Letter writer, having made a high Partition in 
a Pond, watch’d while an Accomplice behind it 
made a very great Noife, and difeharg’d a Gun, in 
order to frighten the Fifh (if poflible) that were 
playing on the Surface of the Water 5 but they did 
not give any Attention j yet as fooa as ever they 
came in Sight, the Fifh immediately made off. 
Our Author thinks this Objedion of little Weight, 
bccaufe the Queflion is not, whether Fifhes, when 
they fee nothing, can be frightened by Sounds only. 
Upon the Whole, our Author fhews himfelf an 
experienc’d and diligent Naturaiift, and will (if I 
miitake not) be allow’d to have fully prov’d the 
Falfity of any Affertion, that all Fifh are intirely 
mute and deaf. 
