CATARACTS, AND INUNDATIONS. QQ 



with a long net or sayue. Here they can have no more than five or 

 six haw Is, by reason of the great swiftness with which the water runs 

 away at the holes in the bottom, which is such thai a horse can hardly 

 keep pace with it, and carries away the fish with great violence under 

 the earth. Sometimes when the fishermen are not nimble, they can 

 scarcely get two hawls before the water is gone. The pit Louret- 

 schka evacuates a day and a half after Vodonos ; the fishing is after 

 the same manner, and the same caution necessary, because of the 

 sudden recess of the water. The water leaves the pit Kralouduor 

 12 hours after Louretschka, and 3 days after that the pit Rescheto. 

 In this latter, in the year l6S5, after the lake had been some years 

 without being dry, there were taken at the first hawl 21 carts of 

 fish, at the second J7, and at the third 9. The pit Ribeskajamma 

 falls dry at the same time with Rescheto, which is that next to it. 

 In this pit they fish under ground, which is a curiosity not unplea- 

 sant, and differing from all the rest. For there is in the bottom a 

 ^reat hole in the stone, by which men nmy easily go down with 

 lighted torches, as into a deep cistern ; and there is under ground a 

 large cavern like a vault, the bottom or pavement whereof is as it 

 were a sieve full of little holes, whereby the water runs away, leav- 

 ing the fish dry, where they are caught. The pit Relhje is empty 

 2 hours after Ribeskajamma, and is of no great consequence for 

 fish. An hour after this, the pit Sittarza, and in 5 or 6 hours more 

 Upauza falls dry. 



The third day after Rescheto the pit Gebno empties ; in this they 

 rarely fish with nets, but let it fall dry, and the holes in the bottom 

 being so small, that they exceed not the size of a man's arm, all the 

 great fish are left behind in the pit. Two days after Gebno the pit 

 Koteu becomes dry; in this they sometimes take the fiah as in the 

 former, but the holes, being larger, let more fish pas*. The pit 

 Ainz empties 4 or 5 hours after Koteu ; in this they seldom let the 

 water run away without using their nets, as in Gebno, because of 

 one great hole in the bottom, by which many great fishes may es- 

 cape. The pit Zeslenza sinks 3 hours after Ainz ; in this they alf 

 ways fish with nets, as in Pounigk, which is emptied the next clay 

 after Koten. 



The last pit, called Leuische, is evacuated the third day after 

 Pounigk, that is, the 25th day from the beginning of the recess of 

 the water of the lake, so that in 25 days the fishing of this lake i 



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