3793° Jifees caught on trees. 176 
above fix weeks. If it succeeds I have no doubt that 
what I have/sent will produce fith ; for I hope you 
will receive it before the period of our monsoon. 
It is not necef.ary however to suppose that the eggs 
are exposed to much heat, for as the mud dries, it 
cracks, andthey may be preserved in the fifsures: It is 
-pofsible also, that the fifh may bury themselves in the 
soft mud, when they deposit their eggs; for our freth 
water fifh can live in little water, and even in mud. 
The filh that are generally caught in the paddy (rice) 
fields, are not confined to one species. I have hada 
list of above twenty given me, that are known to 
those I spoke to; most of which are frefh water fith.t 
_ But this mode of producing fifh will not aécount for 
their sudden appearance of considerable size at the 
very commencement of the rains; I must therefore 
still believe they come from the sea. Fith are fre. 
quently carried to tanks and put in wells ; as the na- 
tives know they are useful in purifying wee by de- 
vouring the filth. 
ids 3 a singular fifh caught on trees. 
I was in hopes of sending you along with this, ade- 
scription of a fith, a species of pike, that will lefsen 
your astonifhment at the idea of finding fifhin the 
highest situatiors, when this-is found on the tops of 
trees. This specics ef pike has been discovered by a 
lieutenant Dalderff a very ingenious Dane, and learn~ 
ed in all the branches oi aturai history. This fith, 
with the afsiftance of two hooks on its breast fins, 
makes a dart through the stream of water falling from 
the leaves and running down the trunk of the padmira, 
. i This list will prove very acceptable. Edi‘. 
