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‘for they will grow up very flowly, though at laft they will be 
great 5 but in the mean time they breed fo infinitely, and fuch 
a flimy nafty fry, as both robs and fouls the water, making it 
unfit for the other fifth. But when a water is ten or twelve 
acres, and fed with fome brook, winter and fummer, they will 
do very well; otherwife not to be made ufe of. 
As for pike, which are inferior to no frefh-water fifh, and 
now more efteemed than ever, being lefs plentiful upon drain- 
ing the fens, and fo harm more ; they are dangerous guefts in 
the great waters; for if grown large, they will devour and 
deftroy the beft fifth, and depopulate the water. But thus far 
you may truftthem ; if you can procure ‘one. hundred jacks 
once in two years not exceeding nine inches, you may put 
them with the carps into your great waters, fo as your carps 
are not under nine or ten inches ; but take care that they ftay 
not above two years, and then fend them. to their peculiar 
ponds, and feed them as I fhall hereafter difcourfe; and fo they 
will erow to be very large and fine fifh, which you. would 
not want. 
I cannot advife the ftocking great flanding waters with eels, 
for they grow flow, and being of an indifferent fize, will be 
lean and dry ; but in moats, which havethe finks of an houfe 
drain into it, is proper enowgh for them, and they will thrive in 
it. It isa fort of fifth, as. I noted, that belongs to a {pringy- 
water. 
‘Fhefe dire@tions belong to the firft ftocking of new-made 
ponds, which, as to feeding, lie under a difadvantage; the 
reafon J have touched, and.is from the dead earth in the, pan 
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