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it may have room to breathe in this confined attitude. 
The net with the fifh and mofs is then plunged into 
water and hung up to the cieling of the cellar. In 
the beginning, this operation muft be very frequently 
repeated, at leaft every three or four hours j by 
length of time the fifh will be more ufed to the new 
element, and will bear to be out of water for fix or 
feven hours Its food is bread foaked in milk, 
which, in the beginning, muff be adminiftred to the 
fifh in fmall quantities ; in a fliort time the fifh will 
bear more and grow fatter. I faw the experiment 
tried in a nobleman’s-houfe, in the principality of An- 
halt-DefTau ; and during a fortnight, I vifited myfelf, 
every day, the fifli, together with the young noble- 
man, my friend, whom I accompanied to his feat 
from the univerfity, during the Chriftmafs-vacation. 
After the fifli had been kept in the above manner 
during a fortnight, it was drelTed and ferved up at 
dinner, when every one prefent found it excellent 
in its flavour. At my late uncle’s, I had an 
opportunity of repeating the experiment on a carp 
It is known to every one that a carp will live a great while 
out of water ; but perhaps it may not be fo notorious, that the 
keeping him feveral hours in the common air, without any pre- 
cautions, may be repeated from day to day, without any apparent 
inconvenience to the fifh. 
There is a fifhmonger near Clare -market, who, in the 
winter, expofes for Tale, a bufhel at leaft of carp and tench, in 
the fame dry veflel : but a fmall proportion of thefe can be fold 
in a day; and I have frequently been informed, that the fifh con- 
tinue in good health, notwithftanding their being thus expofed 
to the air fix or feven hours for feveral fucceflive days. 
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