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the outside of that a brick wall four feet high, 

 both which I think will not keep them within 

 their compass. There is a large fish-pond 

 lying on the South to a brick wall, which is finely 

 clad with philaria. Water brought from far 

 in pipes furnishes his several ponds as they 

 want it. 



13. Sir Josiah Child's plantations of walnut 

 and other trees at Wansted are much more 

 worth seeing than his gardens, which are but 

 indifferent. Besides the great number of fruit 

 trees he has planted in his enclosures with 

 great regularity, he has vast number of elms, 

 ashes, limes, &c., planted in rows on Epping 

 forest. Before his outgate, which is above 

 twelve score [yards] distance from his house, 

 are two large fish-ponds on the forest, in the way 

 from his house, with trees on either side lying 

 betwixt them ; in the middle of either pond is an 

 island betwixt twenty and thirty yards over, and 

 in the middle of each a house, the one like the 

 other. They are said to be well stocked with 

 fish, and so they had need to be if they cost 

 him five thousand pounds, as it is said they 

 did ; as also that his plantations cost twice as 

 much. 



14. Sir Robert Clayton has great plantations 

 at Marden in Surrey, in a soil not very benign 



