- J. B.]
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As for ponds, we cannot boast much of them; the biggest is that in
Bradon Forest. There is a fair pond at West Lavington which was made
by Sir John Danvers. At Draycot Cerne the ponds are not great, but the
carpes very good, and free from muddinesse. In Wardour Parke is a
stately pond; at Wilton and Longleat two noble canals and severall
small ponds; and in the parke at Kington St. Michael are several ponds
in traine. [The latter ponds are supplied by two springs in the
immediate vicinity, forming one of the tributaries of the Avon. The
stream abounds with trout, many of which I have caught at the end of
the summer season, by laving out the water from the deeper holes.
- J. B.]
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Tenches are common. Loches are in the Upper Avon at Amesbury. Very
good perches in the North Avon, but none in the Upper Avon. Salmons
are sometimes taken in the Upper Avon, rarely, at Harnham Bridge juxta
Sarum. [On the authority of this passage, Dr. Maton includes the
salmon among the Wiltshire fish; but he adds, "I know no person now
living who has ascertained its having ascended the Avon so far as
Salisbury." Hatcher's Hist, of Salisbury, p. 689.-J. B.]
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Good pikes, roches, and daces in both the Avons. In the river Avon at
Malmesbury are lamprills (resembling lampreis) in knotts: they are
but..... inches long.
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