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from whence you raifed the bank, and that at firft, which is 
about an acre, is almoft unprofitable. But afterwards, when 
that dead ground hath contracted a little new foil from the 
fettling of the water, efpecially after land-floods, and lain 
dry a fummer, whereby it will begin to graze, it will become 
like the reft of the pond, and put forth as good feed for fith 
as any other part. ‘This may feem ftrange and new, but is 4 
great truth, known to me from ihdtibitable experience. 
Then after one, two, or three years (for longer the pond 
muft not ftand full), when you come ta reftock, and fo on in 
all like oceafions, you may put four hundred carp, or three 
hundred carp, and eight hundred tench (if the water feeds 
them) into an acre, befides perches, It is incredible te thofe 
who have not feen it, as J have done, how carps thus ordered, 
by tranfplanting them every year or two, willgrow. I affirm, 
that from fix, they will grow to twelve and better the firft, and 
to fifteen or fixteen the next year; and then they are moft fit 
for a gentleman’s table ordinarily ; for though greater are mere 
oftentatious, yet thefe are the moft {weet and beft meat, as 
young flefh is commonly preferred to old, 
It is to be noted, that if the fifh wherewith you ftock the 
waters, were kept fo clofe together, and come from over- 
ftocked waters, which renders them lean and poor, you muft 
double the ftock at firft; elfe the two fudden plenty of food at 
firft will furfeit them, and they will die of overmuch Eee 
as I have found fo my great lofs, 
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