The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dividuals. But if this be true of rivers, it is much truer of the fea fhores, vvhich abound with fuch immenfe va¬ riety of fifh, that the curious fiiher- man, after he hath made his draught, often culls only the daintieft part, and leaves the reft of his prey to perifh on the fhore. If this be true, it would appear, I think, that there is nothing which might be had in fuch abundance, and confequently fo cheap, as fifh, of which nature feems to have provided fuch inexhauftible ftores with feme pe¬ culiar defign. In the production of terreftrial animals, fhe proceeds with fuch flownefs, that in the larger kind, a fingle female feldom produces more than one a year, and this again requires three, four, or five years more to bring it to perfection. And tho* the Idler quadrupeds, thofe of the wild kind particularly, with the birds, do multi¬ ply much fafter, yet can none of thefe bear any proportion with the aquatic K 4 animals.