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Of Nurferies to Ponds and Fifb. 
(GENERALLY fpeaking, the frefher air and cleaner foil 
your water hath, the better fifh thrive. Wood of any fort 
near the water is bad, not only from its hindering the wind 
and fun from purifying the water, but from the leaves falling 
in, and rotten wood; both which are pernicious to fith. But 
ofiers and willows may be allowed of, without much 
inconvenience. Oak boards, or timber laid in water, as 
fometimes is done to feafon, will in all probability deftroy 
all your fifh; and likewife hemp laid to rot; all which are 
therefore to be avoided. Dung-hills, ftables, or cow-houfes, 
permitted to drain into ponds, are very ill neighbours, and 
mott efpecially wafh-houfes, which certainly {poil a ftanding 
water. 
Of Frofis, and the Ways to fave the Fifo in rhein. 
THE great plague and bane of fifh in moats, great and 
fmall, and other little ftanding waters, are great and fharp 
frofts. I have ufed all the tricks that I have heard of, which 
are not a few, or could devife, to fave my fith in fuch waters; 
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