Of Fifli-Ponds. 303 



Feet in Water, neither C^rp, Pike, "Tench, 

 or Perch, will breed in it, becaufe it is 

 too deep for the Spawn to hatch, if the l;ifh 

 fhould be inclined to lay any •, and in Icich 

 Places the Fifh grow very large, and thrive 

 a-pace, if they were at firft rightly propor- 

 tioned to the Quantity of Water, and put in 

 at a ri9;ht Age. ^ ^ , 



An Acre of Water (if all the Parts of the 

 Pond, one with another, meafure three Feet 

 deep) may well enough bear ninety Brace ot 

 Carps, which is about a Rod of Water to each 

 Fifh \ or elfe eighty Brace of Carps, and 

 twenty Brace of Tench •, and fo in Proportion 

 for every ten Brace of Chrp wanting, allow 

 twenty Brace of Tench. Thefe Fifh delight 

 to be too-ether ; and the vifcous Matter upon 

 the BodTes of the Tench is often ferviceable 

 to fuch Carp as have by Accident been 



wounded. , , , 1 1 r 



It is found by Experience, that both tnele 

 Kinds of Fifh thrive much better in old Ponds 

 than thofe that have been newly made ; and 

 there is this Reafon for it, that in a Pond 

 newly cut or dug, the Water is not all of one 

 Piece, or parta4cing of the fame Qualities, 

 which it m.uft have fufficient Time to draw 

 from the Earth, and circulate through, or 

 mix with every Part alike of the Water •, for 

 it is a Maxim, that Fifh never thrive which 

 have any Change of Water after they are two 

 Years old, and therefore always flock Ponds 

 with Store of the fecond Year, 



