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orange flies, all which were tried in vain in the deep still water close 

 under Bungalow. The plants of this place are Guilandina, Grewia 

 arbuscula in fruit, Justicia, Bheir, Neem, Mango, Parkinsonia, the 

 latter rare. 



Fish caught in net are Mullet, this fish is very active, and escapes 

 by jumping over. Silurus, Mahaseer, several of the latter taken at a 

 haul, the largest 10 lbs., it is a beautiful fish with golden sides, 

 scales black, with the anterior half bluish-black, posterior half tawny- 

 yellow, fins orange, lips very thick and leathery ; it lives half or 

 three-quarters of an hour after it is taken out of its element. 



The Nepura of the natives, Gobio malacostoma, or Rock Carp of 

 Gray, Hardwicke's Illustrations, is the puhar-ka muchee of these 

 parts : it has the base and edges of the scales dull greenish- blue, fins 

 dusky, a transverse pink line across the scales ; the length of the 

 intestines is twenty-two and a half times that of the body, filled with 

 mud and coloured pulp, stomach continuous with the intestine, and 

 more fleshy, fitted with green and whitish pulp, and disposed in 

 longitudinal folds. 



The Bangun, Roh, (Gobio) is a splendid fish, base and edges of the 

 scales dusky brown, otherwise refulgent gilded, belly white, fins 

 dusky, head greenish-brown, less gilding about the dorsal scales. 

 This fish I have not seen elsewhere. Length of intestines disposed 

 in longitudinal folds, the posterior of which are nearly as long as 

 abdominal cavity, the whole twenty-seven and a half times the length 

 of the body. Organization and contents as in Nepura. The breadth 

 or depth of this fish immediately behind the opercule three inches, 

 across the body, opposite the first ray of dorsal fin, five inches, first 

 ray of anal three inches, length twenty- two inches. 



Query — In which part of a fish intestines like that of the Mahaseer, 

 is the chief digestion carried on ? 



27th. — To Nalighur Bungalow, the distance rather less than 

 sixteen, but over fourteen miles through a similar country to that 

 round Roopur. The road passes a large village called Canowli ; at 

 rather less than about half-way it extended across a sandy dry river 

 bed of some extent, on the right bank of which, at the highest part, 

 is a Seikh brick fort. The road subsequently passes the Sursa, a 

 small shallow rapid stream. The dry bed of which turns up on the 

 south side of the low range to the south of Nalighur valley. No 

 change in vegetation takes place, except the occurrence of a Croton, 

 much like that of the Pagoda near Canowli. 



