Postscript. 



WEdnesdayihe eighth of March, 1699. 

 At Nine a Clock at Night, Mr. 

 Hyde sent his Foot-man to my House, to 

 tell me that he designed to draw his great 

 Fish Pond at Winckhurst, next morning, and 

 desired me to meet him there to be partaker 

 of his diversion with Captain Comer, and 

 Mr. Robert Outram, which I did. 



I have seen several Fish Ponds drawn 

 and abundance of Fish taken, but never in 

 my life so many at one time. 



It was a most pleasing sight to see above 

 a Thousand Golden-scal'd Carps at once 

 lie panting on the ground; Some of them 

 above twenty inches in Length, and silently 

 seem'd to lament their Captivity, and among 

 them some over-grown Pearches of eighteen 

 Inches long, whose Porcupine backs and 

 gaping mouths which discover 'd Teeth as 

 sharp as Spanish Needles, that seemed to 

 threaten the Spectators for debasing them 

 from their proper Element; beside an In- 

 finite Number of most curious Tench, and 

 small Pearch, to the great Amazement of 



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