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elfe it will be hard to find contractors; but for ftores, there 
will be fome always beginning in fifh, with whom you may 
deal ; and fo few will feduloufly apply to the condué of their 
waters, as is neceflary toa command of fifh, you need not fear 
the country will be overftocked. If the humour of living in 
the country once repoffeffeth the gentleman, there may be 
much more occafion for ftores than at prefent there is, becaufe 
their feats are let to tenants, and the waters uncultivated. 
When you have contracted, you are at a certainty, and may 
proceed ; for it is a great inconvenience to take and carry fifh, 
and then be paid with a wrangle; therefore let your terms be 
certain, and you can have no difpute, becaufe all is to be de- 
clared by meafure. 
You will find your ftews and auxiliary waters of great ufe 
to you upon fuch occafions ; for you clap in what fifh you 
pleafe for fourteen or fifteen days; for inftance, five or fix 
hundred carps to a brace of ftews, and they take no harm: if 
they continue longer, it is but feeding them until they are 
fetched or carried away. 
Of firing for Carriage. 
A\S for the particular ways and methods of taking fith, fuck 
as I have dealt in, is at prefent befides my defign, though I 
may. 
