MAKING FISH PONDS, t<CC. 83 



cc^Iors and form need not be dwelt on, since 

 those who want the opportunity of" seeing the 

 Jiving fish, may survey (hem expressed in the 

 most animated manner- in the works of Mr. 

 George Edwards. 



CHAP. VI. 



The most scientific meihod of making Fishponds, 

 Stews, S)C. to which is added several Arcana ift 

 the Jrt of Jngliug. 



IT is ngreed, that those grounds are best that 

 are full of springs, and apt to be moorish: 

 the one breeds them well and the other preserves 

 them from beino: stolen. 



The situation of the pond is also to be consi- 

 dered, and the nature of the currents t'liat fall into 

 it; likewise that it be rel'reshed with a little 

 brook, or with rain-water that falls from the 

 adjacent hilly ground. And that those ponds 

 which receive the stale and dung of horses, breed 

 the largest and fattest fislies. 



In making the pond, observe that the head 

 be at the lowest pan of the ground; and the 

 trench of the flood-gate, or sluice, has a good 

 swift fall, that it may not be long in emptying. 



if the pond carries sijc feet of water it is 

 enough; but it must be eight feet-deep, to re- 

 ceive the freshes and rains that should fall 

 into it. 



It would be also advantageous to have shoals 

 on the sides, for the fishes to sun themselves in, 

 and lay tlicir spawn on ; besides in other placejj 



