152 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



As soon as the wet season commences, the East 

 Indies are abundantly supplied with fish. The 

 rain falling in such abundance as to cover the 

 earth, verdure commences within twenty -four 

 hours ; and in the hollow or low parts ponds are 

 formed, and so plentifully supplied with fish, that 

 nets are used to catch them for the table. 



Dr. Anderson. 



Fishes at Ilmen, and the mode of curing 

 them. At lake Ilmen, near Valdai, they have a 

 fish like a herring, and also another resembling a 

 smelt. They prepare them for a distant market, 

 by putting them in ovens of a different tempera- 

 ture, and gradually but thoroughly drying them. 

 Captain Jones' Travels in Norway. 



Why might not the same method of curing 

 other fresh-water fish be adopted in this country ? 



Editor. 



Fish in Jamaica are supplied abundantly, and 

 in great variety. Many of them are large and 

 rich, but their flesh is in general soft and pulpy, 

 and none to be compared with our salmon. One 

 small kind called the snapper, with various other 

 sorts, are to be seen swimming about near the 

 shore of the clear pellucid harbour, and under the 

 numerous quays, in thousands. In the inland 

 streams, the mountain mullet, a fine rich trout, is 



