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to yourfelf and family, to improve your habitation and eftate, 
preferve health and reputation? 
But even the charge might be alleviated, if not in great part 
faved, by good management. For fuch grofs works as this 
may be put out to undertakers, and you may compute by the 
folid foot or yard, what the charge will be; and the mafters 
will fee the men work, which you cannot do if you are mafter, 
and do all by the day. Then, every one delights to have raifed 
walks and terraces about an houfe and garden; fo that the 
earth being employed in fuch, and raifing mounts in proper 
places, will produce a real equivalent for the charge: but this 
is a digreflion which here I conclude, and return to the affair 
of fith. 
Then confidering moats, as commonly they are, it is not 
expected that the fifh fhould be much at command, becaufe it 
ds difficult, and perhaps not convenient to lay them dry. 
However, they fhould be kept full ftocked, and will maintain 
a great many... This will mend your angling, and the fifhing 
with nets will feldom be labour in vain, as certainly it will 
prove if under ftocked. Thefe waters will receive a great 
fhare of your fry and ftores that are fuperfluous, and fo pre- 
ferve them. . 
Ifa moat come to be laid dry, as will be necefiary fome- 
times to keep at from turning all to mud, after you have by 
a fluice or cut, drained the water as low as you can, make 
dams with boards and clay, and ram them to be water-tight; 
fe you may tofs the water out of one divifion to another, and 
take out the fifh in good order; but if you dry all together, 
you 
