Neither doth al this require
ouer-long, or busie paines or attendance: for if the former water be
let out (sauing in extreme cold weather) before any new come in,
or stopped somewhat too late, it little skilleth, so as on the last
day you keepe the aduantage, which the flood, then at highest,
doth giue you.
And all these seruices about my pond, together with sundry other,
are performed by an old fellow whome I [106] keepe for almes,
and not for his worke. The best meanes of preuenting leakage,
is to let three or foure shouels full of earth fall softly downe,
by the inner side of the flood-gate, which will quurt vp his chinkes.
In winter season, sixe foote depth of water, at least, is requisite.
Now touching the fish, this is the maner: when the Pilcherd Sayners
cut the most impayred pieces out of their nets, they are bought for
a trifle, and serue to make a lesse Sayne, of fome 30. or 40. fathom
length, and 2. in depth, for this purpose, wherewith, betweene
Midsummer and the end of August, when the full sea falleth in the
after-noones, my people make draughtes on the shallow places within
harbour, and taking small fishes, cast them into the pond: they are
kept & brought thither aliue, in a boat halfe full of water, which
entreth thorow a little augre hole in the bottome, and so continueth
new.
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