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and yet in ten years time I have loft three or four thoufand 
carps.- But yet I have found ways to fave the life of many a fair 
carp, when my neighbours have loft all; which I fhal! declare 
as my own experience, and may be profitable upon like oc- 
cafions to any that will ufe them. 
Firft, as to the forts of fifh that fuffer moft, I can only 
fay, that the tench, if any, is froft-proof, and will fhift in 
extremity; but if the froft be intenfe and long, the other 
forts, as carps, eels, pike, perch, and roach, will go near to 
petifh; and I have found not any great difference of hard- 
nefs, but when one fifh complains, they are all in imminent 
danger. 
The waters moft obnoxious to frofts are fuch as are ftand- 
ing, fhallow, or fmall. For if there be either a water- 
current, or a frefh fpring, no fifh dies for froft. If an hard 
winter fucceeds a very dry fummer, the fifh fuffers moft. If 
the ponds are large and deep, fuch as I have directed to be 
made upon the channel of water, which may not run but 
upon floods or rain, the fifh will never die in froft there; but 
fuch waters you muft look upon as the afylum for the 
fecuring the fifh in extremity; and all that you can put in 
there alive, though through ahole in the ice, will certainly live. 
If the bank of a pond fews, it will preferve the fith in froft; 
the reafon, as I imagine, is, becaufe where the water fews out, 
the air will bubble in, which relieves the fifh; or perhaps it 
might put the water into fome degree of motion. If fo, the 
ftirring water with a board flat upon a pole put under the ice, 
might do good; but this is conje@ure. 
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