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There are ftews, moats, and ordinary ponds difperfed about 
in your eftate and neighbourhood ; the employment of which 
being very confiderable in the well ordering of fith, I will con~ 
fider each apart 5 and farft, of ftews. 
Of Stews. 
"THE peculiar ufe of thefe, is, to maintain fifh for the daily 
ufe of your houfe and friends, whereby you may with little 
trouble, and at any time, take out all or any fifh they con- 
tain; therefore it is good to place them in fome inclofed 
grounds near the chief manfion-houfe. Some recefs in a gar- 
den is very proper, becaufe the fifh are fenced from rob- 
bers, and your journey to them is fhort and eafy, and your 
eye will be often upon them, which will conduce te 
their being well kept, and they will be an ornament to the 
walks. oh 
If you have two great waters of three or four acres apiece, 
I do advife, that you be not without four ftews, of two rods 
wide and three rods long apiece. The way of making thefe, 
is, by cutting the fides down fomewhat floping, and carrying 
the bottom in a perpetual decline from end to end, fo as you 
may have a convenient mouth, fuch as horfe-ponds ufually have, 
for taking out your nets when you draw for fifh. 
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