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large ftcne, rubbing their bellies againilthe hard Tandy 
ground ; I often approached with as much iilence as 
pofiible, put my hands and feet among the fporJng 
carp, and had the fatisfa(ftion to fee them pafs and 
repafs through my hands, without being in the ieafl 
didurbed ; but at the lead: noife or quick motion oc- 
cafioned by me, they moved away with furprizing 
velocity. 
About the fpawning feafon, great care mud be 
taken, to keep out all aquatic fowl, wild and tame, 
from the ponds ; for gcele and ducks not only fwal- 
low the fpawn, but dedroy dill more of it, by fearch- 
ing the weeds and aquatic plants. It is therefore a 
general rule, to fend twice a day, a man round the 
ponds, to fcare all wild fowl, viz. fwans, geefe, 
ducks, cranes, and herons. 
. Sometimes crufians and carp, or tench and carp, 
being put together in a pond, and the males and 
females of each kind not being in a jud proportion 
one to another, the different fpecies mix their roe and 
milt, and thus produce mules or mongrel breeds. ‘ • 
The mules, between carp and crudans*, feldom 
and dowly attain the fize, which carp are capable of; 
* The fifli thus named is fiippofed to be the fame with the 
rud or finfcale (See Br. Zoo). Vol. III. p 310 ). Jt is notvciy 
common in England, and is generally erteemed to be much in- 
ferior to a carp in point of flavour, which I rather conceive to 
arife from its being placed in improper ponds, or eaten when it 
is not fully in feafon, as our countryman Mr. Henfhavv gives 
the following account of the Icaroufle (cyprlnus caraufius of 
Linnaeus). “ The crawfifh of tliat country (meaning Den- 
“'mark) are at lead twice as big as ours, and arc excellent 
“ mcatj but the cboiccft pond fifh they have, is called karoufe^ 
