this they rel3om f unlefs they cannot help It J Jet die 
Water f mil -a way without ufing theirNetts, as in G^ho*, 
beca4jie of one great Hole in tl^ Bottom, whereby many 
great Fifhcs may efcape. { ii5.) Tlie Pitt XsP^^ links 
threehoursafter^/>2i-; iti this they allways Fi(h wit'h 
Nmsy Rsiti^f jy.J Pm^mgkf which is emptied the next 
/ 18..> The laft Htt called Lemfche is evacuated tlit 
thind Day after P^/^/&^^ tliat isthe 2 5^^- Day from the.be- 
ginning of the Recefi of the Water of the Lalie, fbthat 
in 2^5 Days the Fifhing of this Lake is over, la this lajft 
Pitt, about T 7 Years fince, I am certainly informed, that 
there fell a Flafli of Lightning^about the Time of Fifhing; 
w:bidi ftunned a great Multitude of large Fiflies, fo as they 
fill'd 28 Carts with them : ( By a Cart is meant as-mucJi 
as Ofli^ Hoi'fe can draw ) The^fe Fifli are Jiot properly 
Thunder-ftruck, but only llunned with the Tidlence and 
Saifurious Vapour of the Lightniog, whicli makes them 
rife and fwim as dead upon the top of the Water ; but 
if they be taken up and put in frefli Water, they *fbon re- 
cover, otherwife they Die : This i-s no uncommon Acci- 
dent in this Lake. 
The Fiflbiag .being thus ended, Signe «is given *by 
tolling the Bell in the ClmppeJ of Sc. "^ohn hapijl-^ near the 
Town of CMmz., Upon whicli all the Inhabitants of 
the neighbouring Villages and Cf Cirknizy without regard 
-€Lther~6o Age or SeK^go, for the moft part ftark naked/in- 
-to the Lake, and look for Fiih amon^ the Weeds and 
-Sedge, ajad inthe fmaUer Pitts. And n^any creep into 
•4;he Subterraneous Caverms and PafCiges, and find ftore oF 
large Fifhes there. They having Ml Liberty to ^fearch afl 
-GVert'be Lake^ excepting in the Pitts P/W.//^^, TV^r^^', an3 
Velbjeh^rch. This Barbarous aiid Jmmodeft Cliftoni of 
.going Maked, has been often attempted to be reclaimed 
ky/tk^'C^r^kuj^rm Mo^ksy butull ija vain, Tor lb prevalent 
i^ia Habit of vicious ?raftices wer good Precepts, that 
