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is no fun, or clfe in the fhade, for heat is the greateft enemy 
to the life of fifth out of water that can be. 
The beft veflel for conveyance (if you carry above twenty 
miles) is a great tun that holds five hogfheads; but if no 
more than ten, fifteen, or twenty miles, ordinary hogfheads 
will do well enough. I know by experience you may fafely 
carry three hundred-carps, fix and feven inches long, in one 
hogfhead ; but from feven to a foot, not fo many by a fourth 
part. If they exceed a foot, then not above feventy or eighty 
ina hogfhead. Let every hogfhead have ten or twelve pails 
of frefh clean water (not well-water), every fix or feven 
miles, if it may be had. There is no need of any great 
liberty for the fifh, if their water be frefh, and often renewed ; 
for one great ufe of the water is to bury the fifh, that with 
mere weight they might not crufh and deftroy one another. 
When you are arrived at the place of difcharge, pour the 
fith into an hoop-net a few at a time, and difpofe them forth- 
with where they are defigned; and with this care you will 
tearce lofe a nith. 
Some ufe to put up fifh in bafkets or hampers for carriage, 
{towing them with grafs between ; but this is not fo good as 
water, for the grafs cleaving to the flime of the fifh, rubs 
and cleans it from the feales; which done, a carp fcarce ever 
thrives after. And although perhaps the fifh may live, they 
will not grow or thrive, becaufe their natural flime, fearce 
recoverable, is rubbed off; and for the fame reafon, it is not 
good to let carps lie at all in grafs, but keep them always in 
water, to preferve them from bruifes, and lofing their flime. 
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