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rivers are decidedly Indian. I may mention, that the 

 Mahasir is to be found in the Jhilun, at the place 

 of the same name; but the river here has not alto- 

 gether assumed the quiescent character, characteris- 

 tic of the rivers of the plains. 

 " The fish of Affghanistan, except perhaps those of the 

 valley of Peshawur, cannot be considered as ad- 

 ministering to any extent to the food of the inhabi- 

 tants. 



(i It is only about Jellalabad, and more especially up the 

 Koonur valley, that I have seen Affghans employed in 

 fishing. The only nets in use are common casting 

 nets, but this method did not appear to me so suc- 

 cessful as that of the hook and line. 



" At Julraiz and Gridur Dewar, I have caught as many 

 as forty fish in the course of three or four hours, 

 and at Olipore, I was by no means unsuccessful. 

 Yet I have seen three men with casting nets not 

 average more than one fish each throughout a whole 

 day.'' 



Of the family Cyprinidae, the number of specimens met 

 with by Mr. Griffith is very great, comprising nearly three- 

 fourths of all the others met with during his travels. 



Of the Bengal species, the Rohee, the Calabase, the Meerica, 

 and the Catla, as well as the Bangon, and various descrip- 

 tions of Pootie, extend to the ponds and river of the Punjab. 



The latter Mr. Griffith traced as far as Peshawur, and it 

 may be remai-ked of these small and insignificant species 

 in Bengal, that they become more developed both in size 

 and numbers in the rivers of the North-western Provinces 

 generally. 



Two Bengal species of Leuciscus are found in the Cabul 

 river as high as Jellalabad ; namely, L. margarodes and Leu- 

 ciscus mola, as well as Cyprinus (Leuciscus) angra, and Cy- 

 prinus curchius, Buch. Four Bengal species of Gobio are 



