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specimen of the genus than any other taken in British 

 waters of which we have an authentic record. Yarrell, 

 our great authority on " British Fishes," says in his 

 second edition, page 352, "Though not so rapid in 

 their growth as some fish, carp have attained three 

 pounds weight by their sixth year, and six pounds 

 weight before their tenth year. The largest I can 

 refer to, are thus noticed in Daniel's Rural Sports : 

 ' Mr. Ladbroke, from his Park at Gatton, presented 

 Lord Egremont with a brace that weighed thirty-five 

 pounds, as specimens, to ascertain whether the Surrey 

 could vie with the Sussex carp.' In 1793, at the 

 fishing of the large piece of water at Stourhead, where 

 a thousand brace of killing carp were taken, the largest 

 was thirty inches long, upwards of twenty-two inches 

 in girth, and weighed eighteen pounds. At Weston 

 Hall, Staffordshire, the seat of the Earl of Bradford, 

 the painting of a carp is preserved which weighed 

 nineteen pounds and a half. This fish was caught in 

 a lake of twenty-six acres, called the White Sitch, the 

 largest of three pieces of water which ornament this 

 fine estate." It will be seen from this that our carp 

 exceeded in weight the largest alluded to in " British 

 Fishes" by five pounds! In 1862 the Great Pond 

 was again fished, and on that occasion, although the 

 largest jack did not exceed eighteen pounds, and the 

 largest carp thirteen pounds, upwards of twenty-two 

 hundred weight of carp and tench were taken and 

 nearly eight hundred weight of eels. Among the 

 tench many were pronounced good specimens, but we 

 have seen equally fine ones taken from very unpre- 

 tending pieces of stagnant water in other localities in 

 the Parish. 



The Engine Pond has supplied us with very fine 

 Trout ; not many years since, when the Engine was 

 under repair and the pond was allowed to run dry, 

 more than forty fine trout were taken, one of which, 

 selected at random, was upwards of two feet in length ; 



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