To take and destroy the Otter
This Creature living sometimes by Land and sometimes by Water, and is a great destroyer of Fish, and mostly of the largest, and best that are found in Rivers, Ponds
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This Creature living sometimes by Land and sometimes by Water, and is a great destroyer of Fish, and mostly of the largest, and best that are found in Rivers, Ponds
or L••kes. To take him, you must make a Wheel made with a double Team or Tonnel, and set an Iron Grate like a Gridi••on against the Team within, with fourholes, and the sliding stayed; or two round Sticks set upright, before the Team in the Wheel, so that they may hold up the Iron; let them be fast bound, to wheel beneath and above; then take a good stiff Rod, and set one end over the Weel, to hold up the Gridiron or Grate, and the other end must reach pretty well over the Teem; fasten a small Ozier at the end of the Rod made with a round kno••, and so put down upon the end of the lowermost Ozier in the middle of the inner Teem, being put on but a very little way, so that the Otter coming within the first Teem, advances to the second, where the Fish is you ••••lt withal, and there putting off the Ozier, the Rod flys ••p, then the Iron-grate falls, and stops the outermost Teem; and when he hears it fall, he will haste, to think to get out, but being stopped, fall a bi••ing the Grate, till he suc••s in so much Water as will drown him; or if that fail, you may take him alive in the Trap, and use him at pleasure.