RIVER GARDENS, ETC. 
most nutritious and delicious esculent, and would 
be likely to act upon that conviction. 
I do not dwell at greater length on the subject of 
Reptiles for the Aquarium, as I am aware that 
deeply rooted prejudices will cause many to exclude 
them altogether, restricting their selection of in¬ 
mates for their tanks to plants and fishes only, to 
the exclusion even of aquatic insects, the interesting 
metamorphoses of which will form the subject of 
the next chapter. 
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