At the end of three Years _Sue your Pond_; which you must ever continue so to do, for that the _Roach_, &c. will increase in such abundance, that eating up the sweetest food, will make your other Fish, as _Carps_, &c. be lean and hunger-starved: And therefore every Year view your Pond, and observe if any such Fry appears; and use your Discretion.
And because the _Carp_ is a Fish of a general Acceptation, and is of a _bon goust_ almost in every mans palate; and being by the aforesaid little Devourers and Multiplyers, very often Deceived in your expectation of a fat _Carp_, large and sweet; I shall insert here an excellent VVay of making _Carps_ grow to an extraordinary Bigness in a Pond.
About the Month of _April_, when you perceive your Pond grow low in VVater, rake all the sides where the VVater is fallen away with an Iron Rake, and sow _Hay-seeds_ there, and rake it well; and at the Latter end of Summer you shall have good store of Grass: The _Winter_ being come the VVater will encrease and over-top all the Grass, and there being VVater enough to carry them, the _Carps_ will resort to the seeds, and feed briskly and grow as fat as _Hoggs_: Thus do every _Summer_, till you sue your pond, and no River _Carp_ can surpass them.
The Use of the Bow is of so great Antiquity, and of so important a Consequence for a _defensive_ and _offensive Armes_, that I could not but a little consider, how needful the true knowledge of its Use was esteemed of Old, and how _little it is accounted_ now. It is uncertain, as well as (almost) unknown, who was the First Inventor of the Bow; but if we examine the _Probability_ there may be of its being derived from the Tyranical Government of _Nimrod_, that so _Mighty Hunter before the Lord_, we may _Conjecture_ him to be the first Inventor of the Bow: For as he is called the _First Founder_ of a _Monarchick Government_, by reducing and subduing a disordered People under the Government of himself; so was he likewise esteemed a _Mighty Hunter_ in another respect, for that he _Subdued likewise the Beasts of the Field_; as is observed of him and his Character, by sundry Commentators on him and his Family. So that in the whole we may suppose him to be the Inventor, or first Finder out of the Bow, as a Weapon of an infallible Execution and mortal Efficacy on that account. Nor can I find any mention made of the _Bow_ thro the whole Hystory of _Genesis_ from _Nimrod_ to _Esau_, they both being characterized with those Epithets of _Mighty and Cunning Hunters_, _Men of the Field_; who very well understood the Use of the Bow, as well for their _Profit_ as _Pleasure_; the last of which is particularly hinted in the commands of _Isaac_ to _Esau_, that with his _Quiver_ and his _Bow_, he should Hunt and take that only _Seasonable_ Dish, which might procure and entaile a _Blessing_ on him and his Posterity. Nay, that Holy Patriarch _Jacob_ himself, in his last Will and Testament to his Illustrious Family, bequeaths a _singular Portion_ to his beloved _Joseph_, which the _strength of his Bow_ had intitled him to. _Gen._ 48. 22.