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Nellore District. 



The Muri. E. got some good sport, writes C., in the Muri with 

 Freshwater Sharks. 



Kistnapatam Estuary. C. had tackle broken. Thus there is not 

 much to be said for poor Nellore. 



Salem District. 



Hoginkal, or the Smoking Rock, which is about five miles' ride 

 from Pennagaram (misspelt Pengugaram in the Ordnance map,) is 

 a very picturesque spot on the Cavery. Its grand falls and rocks 

 are well worth a visit. Tents are required. No supplies except from 

 Pennagaram. 



H. writes me the water is 65 feet deep. About March the fisher- 

 men drive the fish for 20 miles up the river to the long pool below 

 the falls, which are impassable, and block the river below with nets. 

 They cannot net the pool because the water is too deep, and the 

 bottom too rocky, but they fish with lines and catch "tons." There 

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

 he thinks. I should think there nmst be Mahseer there. 



ShoZapddi, 30 miles from Salem. H. writes the river is beautiful 

 for fishing, such rapids and pools, and all open, but he chronicles no 

 bags. 



Tanjore District. 



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

 good fun with Labeo in a pond about six miles out of Tanjore, on 

 the Combuconum road. 



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. 



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 cirrhosd)^ the Chilwa, 

 and sometimes the Hilsa, vainly endeavouring to regain the sea. The 



