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THE FRESH-WATER AQUARIUM.
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for it was a favourite with the ancients. Pliny and Aristotle both speak of it in high terms of praise, and record that it lives to a hundred years of age, becoming, in that time, as white and hoary as an “ ancient mariner ” should. It is not indigenous to our rivers, though, as
GUDGEON, PRUSSIAN CARP, LOACH, & BREAM.
far back as 1496, mention is made of it in the “ Boke of St. Albans,” quoted by Mr. Yarrell. It has been known to attain to a weight of twenty pounds, and in Holland is frequently kept alive in wet moss, and fattened on boiled potatoes. In this way it is said to live three weeks.
C. gibelio is the noble Prussian carp, unquestionably
