cii.vpt. xxiv. So ,i. Tanjor* TvimtveUy. 313 



with not*. They cannot net the pool because the water is too deep, 

 ami the li<>tt"iii too rocky, but they fish with lines and catch "tuns." 

 There are Carnatic Carp, Freshwater Sharks, and Murral, but no 

 Mahsecr hf thinks. I should think there must be Mahseer there. 

 Sholapddi, 30 miles from Salem. 11. writes the river is so 



beautiful for fishing, such rapids and j Is, and all open, but he 



chronicles no b 



Tanjore District. 



There is not a ghost of a Mahseer in the district, but I 

 have had good fun with Labeos in a pond about 6 miles out of 

 Tanjore, on the Combuconum road ; in fact, the 31 £ lbs. mentioned 

 in the Chapter on Bottom-fishing. 



Also in a pond attached to a small temple, half a mile off 

 the road, at a point about a mile from Negapatam, on the 

 Karekal road, one rod got 52 lbs. weight of Labeos and Fresh- 

 water Shark in a day. 



The Tanjore District abounds in Temple tanks, and tanks 

 kept for bathing and drinking, and washing clothes promiscuously. 

 These are mostly fed by small channels from the Cavery and 

 Coleroon, and as their supply comes to them only when the 

 rivers are in flood, it generally brings them fry of all sorts of 

 fish, notably the Labeo, the Freshwater Shark, the White Carp 

 (Cirrhina eirrhosa), the Chela, and sometimes the Hilsa. The 

 last-named is a sea fish, Clwpea ilisha, vainly endeavouring to 

 regain the sea. Some of these ponds cover several acres, and 

 are never netted. Fates, and very little soul for bottom fishing, 

 and the publicity of most of these tanks, combined to prevent 

 my investigating them; but any one so inclined might doubt- 

 less get much fun out of them. 



Tinmvrfhj District. 



CoTirtallvm, the sanitarium of the district, has water near it. 

 A writer in the " Mad] - Mail," 3l8t August. 1874, says: — 



"The milk falls are situated in the Pulliary Pass, and about 14 

 " miles of an easy road to the north of Courtallum. . . . The 

 " Pulliary Pass is a charming place when it does not rain hard, but 

 " during the Courtallum season t lie rain is almost incessant, and in 



