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If you have ground enough, it is better to make a mouth. 
at both ends, and the deepeft part in the middle; for fo you 
may draw your nets backwards and forwards, lofing lefs time, 
and the fifh will not have fuch fhelter, as the depth under a 
head will be. Befides this, you will find the fifh will delight 
themfelves in coming upon the fhoals, and it may be, thrive 
better. But for this manner you mutt allow at leaft a rod of 
ground in length more than for the other. 
Thefe I intend for carps chiefly, though not abfolutely ; 
and if you find the tench and perch increafe and profper, you 
may make other lefler ftews to accommodate them apart, if 
you pleafe ; and fo you will have them at command, without 
 difturbing the other fifh; only obferve this by the way, that 
perch will fcarce live in ftews and {mall waters, if the weather 
be hot, but will pine, grow lean and thin, if not die; there- 
fore the ftews are to be their winter-quarters; from whence 
you take them for the ufe of your table, but in fummer tran- 
flate them to the greater ponds. 
Thefe flews being defigned at the fame time you raife the 
pond-heads, will be done almoft under the fame charge, as is 
hinted elfewhere: and once made, you have the fifh at a 
minute’s warning ready for the kettle, or any other ufe ; which 
convenience is the great end of all the charge and pains, and. 
without it, you are not a mafter of fith. 
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