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TEE PRACTICAL FISHERMAN. 



In Shaw's " Zoology," it is said: "They are sometimes caught in 

 Lagodi Como, in Italy, weighing 2001b." 



Dr. Block records a carp taken in the domains of Count de Schulen- 

 bourg, in Saxony, that weighed 32lb. ; but Jovius and ancient writers, 

 mention some much larger. 



According to "Dodsley's Register, " 1761, "Mr. Ladbroke, from his 

 park at Gatton, presented Lord Egremont, with a brace that weighed 351b. 

 In 1793, at the fishing of a large piece of water at Stourhead where a- 

 thousand brace of carp were taken, the largest was 30in. long and 22in. 

 broad, and weighed 181b." 



A Mr. Mil ward had also drawn carp from his marl pits weighing 2 51b. 

 a brace, and having 2in. of fat upon them. They were fed upon peas. 



It is further said " that a brace of carp were presented to the Princess 

 -of Wales, weighing 281b., caught in a pond near Godetone, Surrey." 





