sweete. The ponds I meane to speake of, shall be of two sorts: the one digged right downe into the ground by labour of man: the other made with a head in a valley betweene two hils, by swelling of the water ouer grassie ground, not in former times couered with water. Those that are dig∣ged right downe are for the most part but small, and serue indeed to little vse, vnlesse it be to keepe fish in for the winter time, to spend as need requi∣reth, or to feede fish in: otherwise of themselues they are not able to sustaine any number of fish, in any good sort, to increase in grouth or goodnesse of meate, and therefore I meane not to speake much of such ponds. But the other kind of pond made with a head being rightly ordered, as here∣after is mentioned, will giue great nourishment to fish without any feeding saue of it selfe. It is therefore requisite for him that would haue good fish, to haue two such ponds with heads so made, as with their sluces he may lay them drie when he pleaseth, and againe to fill them with water when he shall thinke good, to the end that one of them may lie drie one yeare, & the other the next yeare. The greatnesse of his ponds may be accor∣ding to the aptnes of the place where he maketh them, and to the cost he meaneth to bestow. And that valley that hath not any sudden descent but descendeth by little & little, hauing also some lit∣tell rill or brooke running through it, is fittest for this purpose: by reason that in such places a man shall with least charges in making the head ouerflow greatest quantitie of ground. The sayd 0