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wildered in a ftrange place, and often become the 
prey of rapacious birds 
In cafe the pond be good, and not overftocked 
before, and the fry well-chofen and preferved, it is 
almoft certain, they will grow within two fummers 
fo much as to weigh four, live, and fometimes fix 
pounds, and to be flediy and well-tafled. A great 
many Pruflian gentlemen make a good profit, by fell- 
ing their carp, after two years landing in the nur- 
fery, and export them even to Finland and Rullia. 
The main-ponds are the lall kind. In thefe, carp 
are put, that meafure a foot, head and tail in- 
clufive. Every fquare of fifteen feet in the pond 
is fufficient for one carp, and will afford food and 
room for the fifh to play in. The more room carp 
have, and confequently the more food the pond 
affords, the quicker will be the growth of the fifh. 
The longer the pond has been already in ufe, the 
longer you intend to keep the carp in it, the more 
you defire to quicken the growth of them, the more 
you ought to leffen the number of fifh deftined for - 
the pond. Spring and autumn are the beft feafons 
for flocking your main-ponds. The growth of your 
fifh will always be in proportion with the food they 
have : for carp are obferved to grow a long time, 
and to come to a very confiderable fize, and a re- 
markable weight. I recoiled; to have feen carp 
above a yard long, and of 25 pounds weight j but I 
* I have reafon to think that the common carrion crow fhould 
be added to the lift of birds, which Mr. Forfter hath before fup- 
pofed deftroy fifh when in {hallow waters, as I once faw this 
bird taken by a trap, which was baited with a fifh for a heron. 
D. B. 
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