lo £)f f taking 



accordingly he faw done,fancying to fee ftately Carp 

 at the next fuing. 



After the expiration of four years, this • .entleman 

 was advifed to fue his Pond, to fee what Monfters four 

 years addition to their growth would produce ^ for 

 thofe fixty Carp were from Eye to Fork from fifteen 

 Inches to eighteen Inches when he put them in •* now 

 having fued his Pond , he found almoft the whole 

 number of his Carp ^but they were in fuch a lean con- 

 dition , that he did not know them \ for they were 

 Monfters in Nature their heads being bigger than 

 their whole bodies , and almoft as heavy and this 

 happened it feemsby hisownfollv^by putting in but 

 twenty Roaches •, and when the Pond was fued there 

 were bufhelsof imall^o-iic^f.f, and thefe Roaches t^t 

 up all the fweet feed from the Carp ^ for Roaches are 

 like flicep to great Cattle, which eat up and devour all 

 the fweet feed, and what affords the greateft nutri- 

 ment* This Gentleman was very much fruffrated of 

 hisexpeftation-, and the Fiflvmonger which came 

 from London to buy a penny-worth as foon as he per- 

 ceived the Monfters, he mounted his Horfe, and rid 

 as if the Devil drove him, not fo much as bidding the 

 Gentleman farewel Here is to be noted, that Ponds 

 which will not breed one Car^ •, Roaches in one year 

 will multiply by thoufands ^ therefore you muft be 

 careful every year to view your Pond, and obferve if 

 any fuch fry appears, left whea you come to fue your 

 Pond, you be deceived in your expectation. 



Horn te make CarpsjfjroH? to an extraordinary 

 bignefs in a Pond, 



PErceiving about t\\Q month ofJpril that your pond 

 begins to grow low in VVater,then with an Iron- 

 Rake 



