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and in fuch are neither found, nor increafe, but by putting’ 
in; but where fprings are, they are never wanting, though not 
put in: and which is moft ftrange of all, no perfon ever faw 
in an eel the leaft token of propagation, either by milt or 
fpawn in them; fo that whether they breed at all, and how 
they are produced, are queftions equally myfterious. 
Lhe Manner of Stocking Waters. 
T-WAVE found a great analogy between the flocking waters 
with fifh, and paftures with cattle; and that the fame con- 
du& and. difcretion belong to both. Waters may be over- 
ftocked, as paftures often are; fo both may be under-ftocked. 
The latter is the lefs error; for if you over-ftock, you lofe the 
whole fummer’s feed; if you under-ftock, you lofe only the 
reft of your profit; what you do feed, is much the better, and 
turns to account by more ready fale. So alfo of beafts; fome 
of the fame age and feeding will not thrive fo well as others, . 
I have found the like in my fifh. And waters themfelves, like 
pattures, have varieties of goodnefs; fome will raife carps from: 
five to eighteen inches, in five years; others will not do it in 
ten. This is moft fenfible between your great waters made 
upon a fall; and the {mall flanding waters, which have more. 
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