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obfervatlons defervlng to be laid before the Royal 
Society, I fliall think myfelf very much honoured 
' by it. 
I am, with the fincerefl fentiments of gratitade. 
and regard. 
Dear Sir,, 
Your much obliged humble fervant, 
John Reinhold Forfter^ 
Ohfervations on the beff 'way of managing Carp^ from 
real experience ^ and the tejt methods now in life. 
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IT would be needlefs to fpeak of the natural 
hiftory of this well-flavoured flib, after the fatisfadtory 
account given of it in the Britifh Zoology by that 
moft accurate zoologift Mr. Pennant. I will only 
obferve this, that though the carp is now commonly 
found' in ponds and rivers, and generally thought to 
be a frefh-w^ater fifh -f*, the ancient zoologifts ranged 
* Britifh Zool. Vol. HI. p. 300, &c. 
I have great reafon to think, that many other fifh, which, it 
is commonly conceived, can only live in the fea, may alfo exift, 
at Icuft, for feveral years, and perhaps breed, in freih water. 
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