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with long poles, with which they splashed the water between long 
nets, stretched vertically across the pools, in the shape of two 
sides of a triangle, into lesser nets placed at the point ; and in 
this way, he says, four thousand were taken at one driving in 
Deeping-Fen ; and Latham has quoted an instance of two thousand 
six hundred and forty-six having been taken in two days, near 
Spalding in Lincolnshire ; but this manner of catching them while 
in moult is now prohibited.” 
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