38 FISH-PONDS NEAR BRUSSELS—GREAT CARP. [PART I. 
was the amount of Aschylus that I got through 
under the circumstances I cannot undertake to 
say, but I remember I had very good sport 
as far as Carp and Eels went. 
Worms are, I fancy, a better bait for Carp 
early in the season, than later. 
The weight of the largest Carp mentioned by 
Yarrell is nineteen pounds and a half, but abroad, 
if not in England, they occasionally attain a 
much greater size. 
Mr Maltby, our Vice-Consul at Brussels, has 
within the last few years taken out of some pieces 
of water, rented by him in the neighbourhood of 
that city, Carp weighing no less than thirty-three 
pounds ; and a friend of mine was present when, 
in February of last year (1859), some twenty Carp 
were taken from one of them, which ran from 
about twenty up to twenty-five pounds each. 
He endeavoured to bring five of the largest alive 
to England with him, but, unluckily, from some 
restrictions on the French line as to the carriage 
of live produce, he was obliged, after taking them 
a considerable distance, to send them back to 
Ostend, before reaching which they died. 
Through the courtesy of Mr Maltby, who ap- 
pears to have considered the subject of breeding 
