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by men in boats, furnished with long poles, with which they splashed 

 the water between long nets, stretched vertically across the pools, in 

 the shape of two sides of a triangle, into lesser nets placed at the 

 point ; and in this way, he says, four thousand were taken at one driv- 

 ing in Deeping-Fen ; and Latham has quoted an instance of two thou- 

 sand six hundred and forty-six being taken in two days, near Spalding 

 in Lincolnshire ; but this manner of catching them while in moult is 

 now prohibited." 



REFERENCES TO THE CUT. 



No. 1. Dog's hole, where he goes to unbank the fowl. 



2. Reed fences on each side of the mouth of the pipe. 



3. Where the decoy-man shows himself to the fowl first, and afterwards at 



the end of every shooting. 



4. Small reed fence to prevent the fowl seeing the dog when he goes to un- 



bank them. 



5. The shootings. 



6. Dog's holes between the shootings, used when working. 



7. Tunnel net at the end of the pipe. 



8. Mouth of the pipe. 



