APPENDIX E. 



JL had intended in the foregoing pages to embody, in a 

 more popular form, all the piscicultural information con- 

 tained in my Official Report of 1870; but finding that I 

 have failed in some respects I subjoin extracts from that 

 Report. As I have as far as possible omitted the business- 

 like proposals, and confined the extracts to sketches of 

 the life and adventures of the different fish noticed, I am 

 in hopes that they may be not uninteresting to the general 

 reader, and not wholly untempting to .the study of Pis- 

 ciculture. As the Report dealt primarily with my own 

 District, South Canara, its name comes frequently in; 

 but the reader will recognize that the remarks on the 

 peculiar formation of the rivers have equal applicability 

 to other rivers of the West-Coast of India; and that al- 

 most all the other observations have a general, quite as 

 much as a local, pertinence in India: — 



Rivers. 

 6. It will be convenient to treat first of the rivers 

 and then of the sea, and in elucidation of remarks that 

 will follow, it may be well to seek attention to the general 

 features of the rivers of South Canara. The district lies 

 between the sea and the high plateau of Mysore and 

 Coorg; most of its rivers consequently take their rise in 

 those provinces, and, as long as their course lies therein, 



