408 Scientific Intelligence.^^ Zoology. 



ing ; but of this the writer could obtain no authentic account. 

 — Fish so fed and treated, advance in size rapidly, though not 

 to any great weight ; as the kind (a species of perch) which 

 came under observation, never arrive at much more than a 

 pound avoirdupois ; but from the length of three or four inches, 

 when first put in, they grow from eight to nine in a few months, 

 and are then marketable. Drafts from the pond are then occa- 

 sionally made ; the largest are first taken off, and conveyed in 

 large shallow tubs of water to market ; if sold, well ; if not, 

 they are brought back, and replaced in the stew, until they can 

 be disposed of. This business of fish-feeding is so managed, 

 that the stock are all fattened ofl' about the time the water 

 is most wanted for the garden crops. The pond is then cleaned 

 out, the mud carefully saved, or spread as manure, — again 

 filled with water, stocked with young fry, and fed as before, 

 — An intelligent Chinaman, from whom the writer had the 

 above detail, and who sliewed him as much of the process as 

 could be seen during a residence of three months, declared, as 

 his belief, that a spot of ground, containing from twenty to thirty 

 square yards, would yield a greater annual profit as^ a stew, than 

 it would in any other way to which it could possibly be applied. 

 — That fish may be tamed, suffer themselves to be caressed, 

 and even raised out of their natural element by the hand, has 

 been long known to naturalists ; witness the famous ©Id carp 

 formerly in the pond of some religious house at Chantilly, in 

 France, with many other instances on record. But it is pro- 

 bable no people has carried the art of stew-feeding fish, and 

 practising it as a profitable concern, to such lengths^ as is done 

 by the Chinese at this day." — Quarterly Jourtial of Science. 



^3. Leacia la,certosa. — The animal described under this name 

 in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, vol. xiii. p. 220, is the 

 Oniscus longicornis of Sowerby's British Miscellany. As it is 

 certainly not an Onisctis, the genus Leacia^ suggested by Dr 

 Johnston, ought to be allowed to remain. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



24. Mr CormacTc's Journey in search of the Red Lidians. — 

 The following particulars of the expedition of our friend Mv 



