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to Aridotle’s information, concerning the cartilagi- 
nous fifli in genera], goes with young near fix months; 
as the eggs here found feem, from their bei ng To 
Itttle advanced in fo late a time of the year, to be 
dedined for the fpring- brood. Lorenzini’s difie&ions 
of female Torpedos big with eggs in February and 
March, and- of others without any in April, fhew 
that they produce about the vernal as well as au- 
tumnal equinox. This was confirmed by the many 
young Torpedos we met with in the month of July, 
from four and a half to fix inches long, which were 
evidently the offspring of that year. Among thefe, 
however, was one, taken on the 4th July, weighing 
one ounce, and meafuring four inches and a half 
by three, which had flill its native yolk, unconfirmed 
in its abdomen. By this circumdance it appears,, 
that there may be a production likewife at Mid- 
fummer ; but our general obfervations led us to con- 
clude, that it principally takes place at the two equi- 
noxes. I have dwelt the longer on the feafon in 
which foreign Torpedos bring, forth, as we are yet 
entirely ignorant on, that point with regard to thofe of 
our colder climate, and as this knowledge may, in 
fome degree, affift us in knowing when and where 
to look for the animal. Mod fith,, we are told, ap- 
proach the fhore in the fummer feafon;, and the 
Torpedo will doubtlefs then, in qued of food, and' 
of a warmer element, both for itfelf and for its 
young,, haunt the fhoal water. In the cold and tem- 
peduous part of the year, we fhall probably find it 
in a deeper fea, which then affords it the more mild; 
and dill retreat. 
My learned friend Dr. George Baker has procured 
for me a drawing, and fome account of a Torpedo,, 
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