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I fliali leave it to the table at the clofe, to give an 
account of the prolific quality of fome other fi!h, 
whole eggs I have counted, and (hall pafs on to what 
I have found in the carp, which fpecies Petit ex- 
amined. As to this fiih, though I cannot fay I have 
found the eggs, in thofe that have come under my 
notice, fo numerous as he did; yet, as I have found 
the number much larger than Bradley mentions, fo 
I make no doubt but that Petit really found them 
amount to 342,144 ; and I would add, that I dare lay 
they may be found to be much more numerous ftili 
in large fifin of this kind, fince in one that I examined, 
weighing but i6±oz. I found 101,200; and in ano- 
ther, which weighed no more than 25I0Z. I found 
203,109, and carp grow to a much larger fize than 
the biggeft of thefe, but I could not procure any of 
thofe large carp that were full of fpawn. 
If I failed in verifying Petit’s number of eggs in 
a carp, I found thofe of a tench to exceed it, more 
than once, which Bradley reckons not to produce 
more than half the number a carp does, or 10,000. 
For I found in one tench, which weighed 21 . 1 b-, 
383,252 eggs at leaf}; and in another that weighed 
not quite il.lt>, 350,482. 
As to perch, which one of thofe authors I men- 
tioned puts upon a par with carp, I could get none of 
any fize. The large!}, which weighed but 8 oz. 9 dr. 
contained 28,32 3 eggs ; and a fecond of 5 oz. 10 dr. 
had in it 20,582. They feem, however, to be much 
lefs prolific, in proportion to their hulk, than tench, 
fince the large!} of thefe had but about 28,323 eggs, 
and I found a tench of nearly that fize, weighing but 
8 oz. 14.* dr. produced 83,104. 
Bradley 
