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nably large and fquare, almoft an inch between Knot 

 and Knot ■•, let the length of it be about three fathom, 

 and the breadth about feven foot, and verge it on each 

 fide^with (trong fmall Cord, and let the ends be alfo fo, 

 that it may lie compafs-wife and hollow. 



Some make thefe Nets of a much larger fize i but 

 then they are too cumberGDme, and hardly to be ruled 

 with one hand : but the others are readier to pitch, and 

 better to take, alfo more nimble for any purpofe you 

 (hall employ them to. 



Of Driving of Pheafant-rpowts. 



'T^'Cr driving atid taking young Pbeafants in Nets is 

 done after this manner. Having either by your eye or 

 Call found out an Eye of Pbeafants^ you muft then (ta- 

 king the wind with you, for they will naturally run 

 down the wind ) place your Nets crofs the little Pads 

 and ways which you fee they have made, C for they 

 will make little Paths like Sheep-tracks) and as near 

 ais you can, come to fome fpecial Haunts of theirs,which 

 you (hall know by the barenefs of the ground, Mutings, ■ 

 and loofe Feathers which you (hall hnd there : and 

 the(e Nets mul^ be placed hollow, loofe, and circular- 

 wife, the nether part thereof being fattened to the 

 ground, and the upper fide lying hoMow, loofe, and 

 bending, fo that- when any thing rulheth into it, it may 

 tall and entangle it : which done, you mu(t go before 

 where you found the Haunt, and there with your Gall 

 ( if you find the Eye is fcattered and feparated one from 

 the other j you mull: call them together. 



Then take your Inftrument called a Pwer, which 

 is made of (Irons; white Wands or Oliers fet fa(t in a 

 handle, and in two or three places twitted about and 

 bound with, other Wandj, bearing the fhape of thofd 



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