152 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



is thid following fact, and it in all my piscatory 

 experience lias forced itself upon me. 



In large waters, lakes, or rivers, I have ever 

 caught the finest trout, and perch, and pike, when 

 the stock of fish has been of every sort and kind ; the 

 fact being that they subdue the too prolific progeny 

 of each other, and give the room and food required 

 for each to thrive and come to the best perfection. 



In the lake to which I have thus particularly 

 referred as a water eaten up by carp, there are 

 eels ; but at present, with the exception of eels 

 and carp, I do not know that there are fish of 

 any other kind; and, of all lakes in the world, 

 the one at Fonthill Towers offers the finest field 

 for the experiments I have suggested. 



In my visits and travels it is astonishing the 

 enormous tracts of water in the aggregate that I 

 have seen and known to be in the neglected and 

 useless state referred to, affording not a mouthful 

 of food to tlie big, ill-used, over-dosed baby, the 

 '^ Constitution"; nor a delicacy, nor a fowl of any 

 kind to the proprietor s table, nor to his amuse^ 

 nient with the rod or gun. 



This dearth in amusement and utility extends j 

 more or less, in certain sites, over the United King- 



