AND GLEANINGS. 17 



this stew, or pond, is filled with as many young 

 store fish as it will hold, which can be easily 

 done, as almost all the fish in China are brought 

 to market alive placed in the stew, they are 

 regularly fed morning and evening, their food is 

 chiefly boiled rice, to which is added the blood of 

 any animals they may kill, the wash from their 

 stewing-pots and dishes, or any offal or vegetable 

 matter which the fish will eat : it is also said that 

 some olaceous medicaments are used, to make 

 them more voracious, but of this the writer could 

 obtain no authentic account. Fish so fed, and 

 treated, advance in size rapidly; a species of 

 perch from three to four inches, arrive to eight or 

 nine inches in a few months, and are then brought 

 to market, ---the pond is entirely cleared out once 

 a year. Journal of Science, 1827. 



COMMENDATIONS UPON ANGLING. 



The art of angling, or fishing, says Daubenton, 

 places within the reach of man a number of ani- 

 mated beings which furnish us with nutriment, 

 though separated from us by the different ele- 

 ment which they inhabit ; man triumphs over all 

 obstacles by the superiority of his understanding, 

 framing the most ingenious methods, drawing 

 the fishes from the bottom of their waters, where 

 they considered themselves sheltered from his 

 attacks. 



