Now to make a Breeding-pond become a Store- 

 pond , when you cannot make a Store-pond become 

 a Breeding- pond, thus you mcfl do. When you fue 

 your Pond, conlider what quantity of Carps it will 

 maintain- then put in all Milters, or all Spawners, 

 by which means in a little time you will have Carps 

 that are both large and fat beyond your expectation, 

 Bv puting in but one Sex of them, there is an impolli- 

 bility ofencrealing of them ;, but of the Roach it will 

 notwithftanding multiply abundantly.- Therefore it 

 is needful, and altogether neccllary for fuch who keep 

 Breeding-ponds, to fue them once in three years, fot 

 fear of the encreafe cf Reaches, though none wete 

 ever put in, which may fccm very ftrange,. if th^e 

 truth thereof couici not be made manifelt ; as thus : 

 there are feveral Ponds frequented by Wiid-ducks, 

 which ufually come at nights to feed with the Tame 

 ones there abiding : Now thofe Wild-ducks bring 

 thefe Roaches with them, for their feeding amongft 

 weeds in Rivers. 



Befides the Spavv'n o[ Roaches will hang about their 

 Feet and Feathers, which is wafhed o'f by the water 

 of thofe Ponds they are accuftomed to haunt ; by 

 wiiich means in a few vears they become fo numerous 

 though you your felf did not put one into the Breed- 

 ing pond -^ for which caufe you find your Carps ib 

 lean, andalmoft hunger ftarved. 



By the way, give ms leave to infert this true flory, 

 A Gentleman not far from the City oi Lofido?]^ h7d 

 a large pond of about four Acres of ground ^ a Gen- 

 tleman (tanding by at the fuing thereof , and feeing 

 not only a great quantity of Filh, but the bell grovvu 

 that ever hefaw, he advifed him to put intvvoor 

 three hundred of ftores of Gir/), about three or four 

 years growth, out of a pond that was overftccked, 

 and to put Sixty of thofe he had taken out^ which 



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