Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny & Gold, 1802 |
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... Carp are very long lived : GESNER instances one , that was known to be an hundred years old . A pond in the garden of Emanuel College , Cambridge , con- tained a carp that had been an inhabitant seventy years . They also grow to a very ...
... Carp are very long lived : GESNER instances one , that was known to be an hundred years old . A pond in the garden of Emanuel College , Cambridge , con- tained a carp that had been an inhabitant seventy years . They also grow to a very ...
Page 295
... carp is a prodigious breeder ; its quantity of roe has been sometimes found so great , that when weighed against the ... carp are much prefer- able to all others . The carp is apt to mix its milt with the roe of other fish , from which ...
... carp is a prodigious breeder ; its quantity of roe has been sometimes found so great , that when weighed against the ... carp are much prefer- able to all others . The carp is apt to mix its milt with the roe of other fish , from which ...
Page 295
... carp is a prodigious breeder ; its quantity of roe has been sometimes found so great , that when weighed against the ... carp are much prefer- able to all others . The carp is apt to mix its milt with the roe of other fish , from which ...
... carp is a prodigious breeder ; its quantity of roe has been sometimes found so great , that when weighed against the ... carp are much prefer- able to all others . The carp is apt to mix its milt with the roe of other fish , from which ...
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