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Bradley Teems to have been as careful not to be 
guilty of exaggeration with refpedt to the cod-fifh, 
as in the other cafes. He e ft i mates them at a million) 
while Lewenhoek affirmed that he found above 
nine millions of eggs, in one of middling fize. The 
fpawn of one of that fize which I examined, that is 
to fay, one of 18 or 20Tb weight, I found to contain 
between three and four millions, if my friend’s 
weights were accurate, for I made the examination at 
a diftance from home ; and by a fubfequent obfer- 
vation at home, I have reafon to think there was this 
number in it, though I was prevented purfuing my 
fecond examination fo far as I would have done, bv 
fome particular occurrences. According to this, 
there is nothing incredible in Lewenhoeck's account; 
his fifh, I fuppofe, being remarkably diftended with 
fpawn, and for that reafon perhaps thought, by that 
inquifttive and curious perfon, a fubjecft that ought 
not to pafs unexamined. 
I have hitherto mentioned no flat fiflh, nor do I 
remember that any author has given us an account of 
their fecundity. I imagined, from their make, it 
could not be extraordinary; I was therefore extremely 
furprized to find in the firft flounder I examined 
and which did not weigh quite three ounces, 133,407 
eggs; in a fecond, which weighed little more than 
34 ounces, 225,568; and much more ftill when 1 
difcovered in a large one, that weighed about 244 oz. 
and which was of that fort that is lpotted like a plaife, 
as Ray has told us fome flounders are, 1,357,400: 
this was truly aftonifliing. 
The number of eggs that a foal produces, I have 
cbferved to be great, but nothing like that which I 
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