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to a pound is to Ipe preferred. If a pond is fit for 

 trout, having a good stream running through it, I 

 would put no other fish but trout into it. I have 

 seen some ponds produce trout of magnificent size, 

 and very fine flavour, and am inclined to think that 

 very many ponds condemned to baser tenants, would 

 produce fine trout if they were allowed to. " 



Mr. Boccius, in his work upon Pond-fish, recom- 

 mends a species of carp foimd ia Holland, called 

 the Spiegel, or Mirror carp. He avers that it is 

 as far superior to the ordinary carp for table pur- 

 poses, as it excels it in beauty of appearance. A 

 curious feature noticeable in this Spiegel carp is 

 a row of very large scales of various sizes, along 

 the side, which are of a mottled blue colour. It 

 appears at times to grow to a very large size. 



Gudgeon, as I have before stated, will do weU in 

 ponds, and may advantageously be introduced into 

 them. 



I now come to the Pike, and little more can be 

 said of him, as already he is in many instances an 

 intruder and almost too widely spread, as he monopo- 

 lises waters which formerly were full of fine trout. 

 In some lakes, as I have before said, he is for a 

 time useful, and the trout increase in size ; but the 

 breed of pike in these lakes, if they have managed 



