FISHES AND FISHING. 241 



By law I learn, they are not liable to the debts of the 

 tenant for life. 



In the canal whose end faces Eeddington House, 

 I have seen trout as long as a small hedge stake, and 

 almost as thin ; this arises from the want of more 

 water running through it, which could be easily 

 effected, k and would bring more food for the half- 

 starved fish ; another evil is, the quantity of decaying 

 vegetable matter constantly falling into it from the 

 leaves of the surrounding trees, (which should be 

 carefully swept up, and burned) ; every alternate tree 

 ought to be cut down, the fish taken out of the canal, 

 and preserved, whilst it was emptied and completely 

 cleansed, then there might be trout in it as large as 

 in the upper pool at Carshalton ; but they would 

 never be as good, being altogether a different species 

 offish. 



I once caught a trout, just by the arch which lets 

 the water from the upper to the lower pool in Car 

 shalton town, by letting down a hook baited with a 

 worm. I had great difficulty in keeping him out of 

 the arch, but landed him where horses and carriages 

 used to pass through the pool, and he weighed six 

 pounds. And I saw one at Mr. Curtis' s, Paper- 

 maker, lower down that branch of the river, in a 

 sort of pound, where he was constantly fed, arid 

 weighed twelve pounds. It was intended that he 



