38 FISH-PONDS NEAR BRUSSELS GREAT CARP. [PART I. 



was the amount of ^Eschylus that I got through 

 under the circumstances I cannot undertake to 

 say, but I remember I had very good sport 

 as far as Carp and Eels went. 



Worms are, I fancy, a better bait for Carp 

 early in the season, than later. 



The weight of the largest Carp mentioned by 

 Yarrell is nineteen pounds and a half, but abroad, 

 if not in England, they occasionally attain a 

 much greater size. 



Mr Maltby, our Vice-Consul at Brussels, has 

 within the last few years taken out of some pieces 

 of water, rented by him in the neighbourhood of 

 that city, Carp weighing no less than thirty-three 

 pounds ; and a friend of mine was present when, 

 in February of last year (1859), some twenty Carp 

 were taken from one of them, which ran from 

 about twenty up to twenty-five pounds each. 

 He endeavoured to bring five of the largest alive 

 to England with him, but, unluckily, from some 

 restrictions on the French line as to the carriage 

 of live produce, he was obliged, after taking them 

 a considerable distance, to send them back to 

 Ostend, before reaching which they died. 



Through the courtesy of Mr Maltby, who ap- 

 pears to have considered the subject of breeding 



