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may not perhaps altogether pafs it by, fo much as concerns 
the carriage of fifh, which I look upon as a confiderable item 
in the managery as to profit, which I principally aim at, I 
fhall now obferve. 
When your fifhing is in order to remove far, whether the 
waters are great or {mall, it muft be done in winter, between 
the firft of O@ober, and the laft of March; and the colder 
the weather is, the better. One great caution is, not to handle, 
or any way to batter or bruife them ; for it is a great truth, 
and common fenfe {peaks it, that fifh battered and bruifed, will 
not thrive upon tranfplanting, fo well as others; therefore 
when your pond is drawn, and you come to the fifth, take 
them out of the water with hoop-nets fixed upon ftaves about 
ten feet long, and ten or twelve fifh at a time in a net is fulici- 
ent, though buta foot long; more, by their weight and frug- 
gling, will damage each other infenfibly, fo as to hinder Seal 
growth and thrift, and perhaps be the caufe that many die. 
Let the fifth be as little out of the water as may be; for when 
fouled, and almoft choaked with mud, they will nee and re- 
cover themfelves with water, which frefhen upon them often, 
till you come to put them up for carriage. 
If you fith with nets, and make a great draught, as probably 
you will when the water is low, be not hafty to draw the fith 
upon the ground, but fecure them by taking the lead line upon 
the ground, and holding up the cork line, and fo let them ftir 
a little, they will be the cleaner; and then take them out with 
hoop-nets, as before. And if there be occafion to keep them 
any time out of the water, let it be upon the grafs, when there 
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