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Sc brace of carp, of 3lbs. each and upwards. 
50 brace of tench, of 2lb$. each and upwards. 
50 brace of perch, of ilb. each and upwards. 
150 brace. 
That is three brace of fifh, weighing at lead upwards of 
twelve pounds, for the life of every week; and allowing 
a few ounces over in each brace, will make up the weight 
leven hundred pounds. 
Allowing one acre for No. 5, one-third of an acre for 
No. 1, and one acre and two-thirds for the intervening 
numbers, the whole water would be three acres. Upon 
this calculation, the dock of No. 1, at one (hilling a 
pound, would be worth thirty-five pounds per annum, 
lo that the value of each acre would be nearly twelve 
pounds annually ; and there is fcarcely any place in Eng¬ 
land but where fuch fifh would fell for more, efpecially 
tench. 
No. 1 being fuppofed to be near the houfe, and at no 
great diftance from the garden ; if the fifii diould not 
thrive diffidently, (which will be feen by the difpropor- 
tioned lize of the head, and the whitenefs or palenefs of 
the fcales,) they may eafily be fupplied with more food 
by loofe peafe from the garden ; the fweepings of the 
granary, worms faved by the gardener in digging, and ga¬ 
thered from the walks, and the offal of the poultry killed 
for the kitchen ; or by letting down the water about two 
feet, in the fpring or dimmer, where there is a diffident fup- 
ply, and fowing the fides with oats, barley, rye, or wheat, 
very lightly raked in, and then flopping the fluice again. 
Befides occafionally fowing the fides of the pond with 
a little corn, another method of fupplying them with 
food fliould be pradifed, which is known but by few, 
and cods but little. Float-fefcue-grafs is what fifh are 
- extremely fond of, both the leaves and. feed, and is very 
nutritious. It grows very luxuriantly in {hallow water, 
puts out roots at every joint, and is -found growing natu¬ 
rally in many parts of England. Plant fome of this along 
the edge of the pond, and, if cattle do not eat it, the 
feed will be ripe in July, and afford food for the fifh. 
In ponds already flocked, but not accurately regulated, 
it would be advifeable to begin with that which has the 
moll pike, otherwife with No. 4, or what is intended for 
No. 4, and throw all the fifh under five inches length imo 
No. 5, and the larger, according to their fizes, into the 
other numbers; and fo on with No. 3, 2, 1. Store-fifh 
procured elfewhere, if taken in Cummer, fliould be moved 
in the night, in clean draw wetted occafionally after they 
are packed ; except perch and pike, which can only be 
carried in clean river or pond water. In removing fifii 
from one pond to another, they fliould be fir ft put into 
tubs of water already prepared for them, and afterwards 
carried in buckets without water. I11 taking pike or perch, 
great care muft be obferved to avoid railing mud in the 
water. 
I11 breeding-ponds, all water-fowls, as geefe, ducks, &c. 
fliould be difcouraged, and herons in particular deftroyed. 
If any white fifii, as roach, dace, &c. fliould be found, 
they are to be taken ; and if there be a fquare piece of 
water for large pike, they fliould be put into it as food 
for the pike, liels may be put with advantage into any 
except the breeding-pond, in lieu of perch, or fome of 
each fort. The moft eafy way of taking them is by trim¬ 
mers, laid over-ni'glit, baited with fmall fifii, not with 
worms ; otherwife they may catch the carp ; or with a 
fmall thief-net baited with white fifii. 
Common fewcrs and drains from the laundry are preju¬ 
dicial to fifh ; fo are the leaves falling from trees in great 
quantities, which fliould be immediately raked out. The 
life of grains fliould likewife be avoided in large quanti¬ 
ties, as having little nourifhment whilft they are thus 
waflied by the water. It is obvious, that this method of 
regulating fifii, will apply with its full effedt in larger 
fpaces of water; it will likewife apply in a confiderable 
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degree to fmaller pieces; even where the change is but 
from a pond for the life of cattle to a Angle canal in a 
garden, which, if narrow and long, may be divided by 
boards with lome holes bored for the water to make a 
current through them. In fituations near the great in¬ 
land manufadhires, and near the turnpike roads leading 
from an eafy diftance to the metropolis, water may be 
made, by this kind of management, witli little trouble 
or expenfe, to produce a large annual rent. 
FISH'TOWN, a town of Africa, at the mouth of the 
river Calbari. 
FISH'WOMAN, f. A woman that fells fifii about the 
ftreets.—In the other kind of burlefque, that of Scarron, 
Dido and iEneas fpoke like fjhwomeu and porters. J. War- 
ton's EJfay on Pope. 
FISH'Y, adj. [from Confiding of fifh. Inha¬ 
bited by fifii : 
Bait the barb’d fteel, and from the JiJhy flood 
Appeafe th’ afflictive fierce defire of food. Pope. 
Having the qualities or form of fifii.—Few eyes have 
efcaped the picture of mermaids, that is, according to 
Horace, a monfter with a woman’s head above, and Jifiy 
extremity below. Brown. 
FI'SMES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of 
Rheims, on the Vefie : five leagues north-weft of Rlieims, 
and twelve north-weft of Chalons-fur Marne. Lat. 49. 18- 
N. Ion. 2i. 20. E. Ferro. - 
FISSA'TO, a feaport town of Africa, in the country 
of Tripoli: ninety miles north-weftof Tripoli. Lat. 33. 50. 
N. Ion. 12. E. Greenwich. 
FIS'SIDENS of Iledwig, the Dicranum of Sckreber ; a 
genus comprehending feveral fpecies of mofs, belonging 
to Linnaeus’s genera of Mnium, Bryum, and Hypnum; 
which fee. 
FIS'SILE, adj. \_fJJUis, Lat.] Having the fibres or 
grain in a certain direction, fo as to be cleft.—This cry- 
ftal is a pellucid fjjile (tone, clear as water or cryftal of 
the rock, and without colour ; enduring a red heat with¬ 
out lofing its tranfparency, and in a very ftrong heat cal¬ 
cining without fufion. Newton. 
FlSSI'LITY,yi The quality of admitting to be cloven. 
FlS'SIPED, adj. \_JiJJus, cloven, and pes, Lat. a foot.] 
Clovenfooted. 
FIS'SIPFDE, f. A cloven-footed animal. 
FIS'SUR E, f. \_ftjfura, Lat. fiffure , Fi\] A cleft ; a 
narrow chafm where a breach lias been made.—The gaping 
figures to receive the rain. Thomjon. —In forgery, a crack 
either in the fkull, or in a bone." It differs from a frac¬ 
ture, inafmuch as a fra 61 ore is tranfverfe or oblique, but 
a fiffure is longitudinal. See the article Surgery. 
To FIS'SURF, v. a. To cleave; to make a fiffure.— 
By a fall or blow the fkull may be fifi'urcd or fra 61 tired. 
V/ifcman. 
FIST, f. [pj% Sax.] The hand clenched with the 
fingers doubled down, ill order to give a blow, or keep 
hold.'—'Anger caufeth palenefs in fome; in others-trenu 
bling, fwelling, and bending the fift. Bacon. 
And the fame hand into a fifii may clofe, 
Which inftantly a palm expanded fliows. Denham. 
To FIST, v. a. To ftrike with the fift.—I faw him fpurn- 
ing and fijling hen 1110ft unmercifully. Dryden. —To gripe- 
with the fill : 
We have been down together in my deep, 
Unbuckling he\ms, fifing each other’s throat. Shakefpeare . 
FISTEL'LA, or Fefza, a town of Africa, in the em¬ 
pire of Morocco ; the inhabitants are rich, courteous, 
and warlike .: 150 miles north-eaft of Morocco. 
FIS'TER, a town of Norway, in the diccefe of Bergen 
fixteen miles north-eaft of Stavanger. 
FIS'TICUFFS,/. Battle with the fift; blows with the 
fift.—My invention and judgment are perpetually at fifti- 
cufFs , ’till they have quite dikibled each other. Swift. 
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