. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. >• i '•>. November 174?^ themfelvcs into the fca, were not ftf ^iundcr. They had obferved that when the herrings came in ipnng todcpofit their ipawn, they always Iwa
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. >• i '•>. November 174?^ themfelvcs into the fca, were not ftf ^iundcr. They had obferved that when the herrings came in ipnng todcpofit their ipawn, they always Iwam up the river, where they ufed to catch them, but never came into the other. Thiscir. cumftance led Mr. Franklin^ father, who was fettl^ between the two rivers, to try whe^ ther it was- not poffible to make the herrings like^ wife live jp the other river, for that purpofc he pRt out his nets, ^s they were cotining up for fpawping, apd he caught forpe. He took the fpawn out of them, and carefully carried it acrofs the land into the other riv(gr. It was hatched, and the confecmence was, tih^^ cy^i^ year after- terwards they caught m^rt herripgs in that river; and this is flill the cafe. This leads onp to be- lieve that the fifh always Jike to fpawn in the fame place where they were hatched, aedfrom whence they firfl put put tp fea 5 being a$ it were aCCuftOmGcl to it, n!.; ?! The follov/ing is another peculiar obfervation. It has never formerly been; known that codfi(h were to. be caught n^Xcai^Q Binlopen: they were -always caught at thp mouth of ih^ Delaware: but at pr^fent they are numerous in the former place. Fromhence it may be concluded, thatfiih likewife change their places of abode ofitheirown accoru. ^,j} (ft*'. Ui^i A CAPTAIN of a ihip who had becii in Green- land, aOerted from hi& own experience, that on pafling the feventieth (jeg. of north lat. thefum- mer heat was there much greater, than it is be- low that degree. From hence he concluded, that the fummer h
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