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Hundred and feventh Year of her Age. They had both 
of them Relief from theTownfhip of North- Bier ley nigh 
fifty Years. I fhould not have taken Notice of their 
Age feparately, it falling fo far (hortof feveral Inftances 
which have happened in this County, but jointly I do 
not remember any that have come up to them. 
From the Longevity of Humane Kind, I lhall proceed 
to the Longevity of Fifh out of their proper Element. 
About fix Years ago, great quantiries- of Tench weretaken 
in a Pond belonging to Stephen Tempeft of Broughton in 
Craven Efq; and were fent to the Neighbouring Markets. 
The Fifh were taken on Monday towards Night, and 
fome brought to Bradford on Tuefday about the fame 
time 5 and not being frequent in our Markets, Six of 
them were fent hither by Mr Ferrand the Vicar on Wed- 
nefday. I not being at Home, the Basket was fet upon 
the Kitchen Table, not far from a good Fire ^ where it 
continued till Thnrfday Morning (the Servants not know- 
ing what was in it.) Upon opening the Basket, and 
looking upon the Fifh, l thought the Eyes of fome of them 
look’d clear : I put two of them into .a Pail of Water, 
and in left than two Hours time they fwam very lively 
in the Water. The remaining four having no figns of 
Life upon them, 1 put them into the fame Pail, and be- 
fore Night they all fwam about in if. 
B nr bolts being a Fifh not frequently met with in the 
Southern Pvivers of England , are often found in this 
County, efpecially in flow Rivers and ftanding Waters, 
as in the River Fofs in Tork , and alfo in Dement $ but in 
no Place more frequent, than in the Fen Ditches of the 
Levels, about four Miles from Doncafter. f 
I have been feveral times prefent, when plenty of 
fmall Trouts have been caught in the mountainous Lakes 
of North Wales by Angling $ and have, with no fmall 
Admiration, consider'd the difficult Accefs to thele Places, 
where 
