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found in flounders, finding in one, which did not fall 
much fhort of a pound, rather more than 100,000; 
and in another, that weighed about five ounces, 
3 8 > 77 2 - 
To make this difquifition hill more extenfive, 
I examined two or three kinds of fhell-fifh. 1 found 
in a lobfter of 144. oz. when in the fliell, and of 104, 
when diverted of it, 7,227 ; and in another that 
weighed 2±lb, and out of the fliell fomewhat better 
than i.l lb, 1 told 2 1,699 eggs. 
I took alfo the pains to tell all the eggs of fome 
fhrinips, one by one, and found in one which weighed 
17 L grains only, 3057; in another of 31 gr. 4090. ; 
and in a third of 39 gr. 6807. 
This, confidering the fmallnefs of the creature, is 
more remarkable than the fruitfulnefs of the lobfter ; 
but neither is the one or the other to be compared, 
in this refpeft, to the crab, for in a large one, weigh- 
ing near 1 lib, but not quite, I found that the fpawn 
weighed 687 gr. but the eggs were fo minute, and at 
the fame time adhered fo clofe together, that I could 
not number them diftindlly ; however, the weight of 
rhe whole, and the minutenefs of the eggs, fliow that 
they mud have been very numerous; and I believe 
from a rough eftimate I made, that they exceeded a 
million. ' ? 
The table, at the clofe,. gives all thefe ac- 
counts,' with the addition of feveral more particulars, 
in a very fhort compafs. The fir ft column contains 
the names of the fifh which I examined ; the lecond 
theirweight; the third the weight of their fpawn; 
the fourth their fecundity ; and, as I fuppofed fome 
perfons might be defirous to know how large a 
portion 
