( 14. ) 



and this is said not to be " waste" because they are 

 eaten ! 



XXII. On the Himalayas grain is, in places at least, 

 Mills worked by water-power : ground in mills moved by water-power 



small fish destroyed there. ( pam> 33^ ^hich j g effected by 



constructing small canals, into which the water of streams is 

 diverted as in irrigation works. Into these canals, termed 

 /cools, numbers of fry and even large fishes find their way, 

 as there are no obstructions at the mouths of these /cools to 

 prevent their entrance. The mill-owner cuts off the water at 

 his pleasure, and all the contained fish are left dry. 



TANKS USEFUL AS FISHERIES. 



XXIII. Of tanks (see para. XI), there are those 



which are always in connection with 



Tanks useful as fisheries. . * 



such running water as rivers and 



works of irrigation ; or those in which this communication 

 only exists during the monsoon time : whilst others are 

 entirely unconnected. First, there are those which are always 

 in connection with running water, which are generally useful 

 as breeding-places for the non-migratory forms of fishes, and 

 merely require a little care to be taken as to how they are 

 worked, in order to render them exceedingly valuable as 

 fisheries. The second sort of tanks, or those in which com- 

 munication with running water only exists during the 

 monsoon time, are of two distinct forms : in the first, they 

 always, or nearly always, contain water, whilst in the second, 

 they are dry, or almost so, except during the rains. Pish 

 obtain access to both these forms of tanks during the mon- 

 soons and breed there ; but in the last, so soon as all commu- 

 nication with the running water has ceased, they become 

 practically isolated, and unless they happen to be of such va- 

 rieties as bury themselves in the mud (para. XLIV) during 

 the dry months of the year, they must die, whether captured 

 by man, killed by the lower animals, or destroyed by the sun 

 as the water evaporates. Lastly, we have those tanks which 

 are always unconnected with large pieces of running water, 

 frequently due to their being situated upon an elevated 

 portion of the country, and these are generally stocked with 

 fish by the owners. 



XXIV. In large jliils, where the screw pine, Pandanus 

 jhiis-, how naturally the fish odoratissimus, or many weeds as the 



in them may be protected from lotUS OF Valisneria, COVCr their SUl'faCCS 



and extend themselves through their 

 depths, or where grasses spring from their beds, or the roots 



