1208 
CARP. 
burg, a palace belonging to the king of Prussia, 
he saw more than three hundred carp between 
two and three feet long : he Was told by the keeper 
that they were of between fifty and sixty years 
standing; they were tame, came to the shore in 
order to be fed, and swallowed with ease a piece of 
white bread of the size of half a halfpenny roll. 
