Old Hampshire Mapped
Cobbett's Hampshire
Transcription (98)Chamberlayne, Mr
fish pond
Netley Abbey
Mr. CHAMBERLAYNE has caused the ancient fish-ponds, at Netley Abbey, to be 'reclaimed,' as they call it. What a loss, what a national loss, there has been in this way, and in the article of water fowl! ... These are things, too, which cost so little labour! You can see the marks of old fish-ponds in thousands and thousands of places. ... A trifling expense would, in most cases, restore them; but, now-a-days, all is looked for at shops: all is to be had by trafficking: scarcely any one thinks of providing for his own wants out of his own land ... To buy the thing, ready made, is the taste of the day: thousands, who are housekeepers, buy their dinners ready cooked: ...
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