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down and take the screens ont, tlie water had risen and rushed 

 over, and brought those little shad, then about tw^o Inches long, 

 and plastered them on that screen and killed them all. I didn't 

 count them, but there must have been a million of them. That 

 was a gTcat loss — we so considered it. That was the upper 

 ponds, of course the lower ponds escaped. 



President: Any fiirther discussion of this paper? I think 

 Captain Learv's pajier has served its purpose of raising a dis- 

 cussion. 



