LECTUKES, Ac. 



I. 



SINGULAR FACTS RELATING TO 

 FISH. 



MY DEAR FRIENDS, 



I am going to read you something about fish, 

 as you are all fishermen ; but not all about the 

 fish of this country, as you know them well, but 

 about the fish of hot countries ; and what I am 

 about to say of them will, I am sure, interest 

 you. The facts I am going to state are well 

 known to observant naturalists, and are suffi- 

 ciently authenticated to leave no doubt of their 

 truth. In the East Indies, Ceylon, and other 

 hot countries, there are numerous ponds and 

 tanks, which in the rainy season are well filled 

 with water as well as with fish. When the sun 

 afterwards blazes forth in all its tropical heat, 



