Cot le Pe 
TLEONARD MARCHAL &rk brought this fifh into 
England about 1514: it is the moft valuable of all kinds of 
fifh for ftocking ponds, becaufe of its quick growth and great 
increafe. If the feeding and breeding of this fith were more 
underftood and practifed, the advantages refulting would be 
very great; and a fifh pond would become as valuable an 
article as a garden. The gentleman who has land in his own 
hands, may, befides furnifhing his own table and fupplying 
his friends, become a fource of much profit in money, and 
very confiderable advantage to his lands at the fame time, fo 
as to make it produce more than by any other employment 
whatever. The fale of Carp makes a confiderable part of 
the revenue of the principal nobility and gentry in Pruf_ia, 
Pomerania, Brandenburg, Saxony, Mecklenburgh, Bohemia, 
and Holftein. Particular attention fhould be paid to the 
foil, water, and fituation of a Carp pond; the beft kind are 
thofe which are furrounded by the fineft pafture, or corn fields, 
with a rich black mould, and foft {prings on the {pot, or other 
running water, that is neither too cold, or impregnated with 
acid, calcareous, felenetic, or other feraneous, mineral parti- 
cles. The water may be foftened by expofing it to the air 
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