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" They are alfo extremely tenacious of life, and will live for a moft remarkable time out of water. An experiment has been made by placing a carp in a net, well wrapped up in wet mofs, the mouth only remaining out, and then hung up in a cellar, or fome... "
The General Genteel Preceptor - Page 391
by Francis Fitzgerald - 1797
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A Modern System of Natural History: Containing Accurate ..., Volume 9

Samuel Ward - 1776 - 410 pages
...of water ; and the carp has been known to be fattened in a damp cellar. The method is by placing it in a net well wrapped up in wet mofs, the mouth only out, and then hung up in a vault. The fifh is fed with white bread and milk; and the net fometimes plunged ihto...
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British Zoology, Volume 3

Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 548 pages
...and will live for a moft remarkable time out of water. An experiment has been made by placing a carp in a net, well wrapped up in wet mofs, the mouth only remaining out, and then hung up in a cellar, or fome cool *Gt/mtrpi/t. 312. , •f De pi/cibus Romanis,...
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Surveys of nature; historical, moral and entertaining

Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...have many fins, are the moft bony. Spinous fifti can live out of their own element but a very ftiort time. In general, when taken out of the water, they...cellar ; being placed in a net well wrapped up in wet mors, the mouth only out, and hung up in a vault ; fed with white bread and milk ; and the net now...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pages
...and will live for a moft remarkable time out of water. An experiment has been made by placing a carp in a net, well wrapped up in wet mofs, the mouth only remaining out, and then hung up in a cellar, or fome cool place ; the fiih is frequently fed with white...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 2

1797 - 522 pages
...and will live for a mod remarkable time out of water. An experiment has been made by placing a carp in a net, well wrapped up in wet mofs, the mouth only remaining out, and then hung up in a cellar, or fome cool place : the filh is frequently fed with white...
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Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4897

1905 - 802 pages
...(1880-188-4, p. 160): Pennant observes upon the following experiment having been twice made, of placing a carp in a net well wrapped up in wet mofs, the mouth only remaining out, and then hung up in a cellar or some cool place, the fish being frequently fed with...
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