July 14, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Musical Fishes. 
Sir J. Emerson Tennent having heard a story 
about musical sounds issuing from the lake at 
Batticalea, in Ceylon, paid a visit to the place in 
1848. The fishermen told him that the sounds, 
which resembled the faint sweet notes of an 
jEolian harp, were heard only at night and dur¬ 
ing the dry season, were most distinct when the 
moon was nearest the full, and proceeded, they 
believed, not from a fish, but from a shell called 
the “crying shell.” 
“In the evening,” says Tennent, “when the 
moon rose, I took a boat and accompanied the 
fishermen to the spot. We rowed about 200 yards 
northeast of the jetty by the Fort gate; there 
was not a breath of wind or a ripple except those 
caused by the dip of our oars. On coming to the 
point m'entioned I distinctly heard the sounds in 
question. They came up from the water like the 
gentle thrills of a musical chord, or the faint vi¬ 
brations of a wineglass when its rim is rubbed 
by a moistened finger. It was not one sustained 
note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear 
and distinct in itself; the sweetest treble ming¬ 
ling with the lowest bass. 
“On applying the ear to the woodwork of the 
boat, the vibration was greatly increased in vol¬ 
ume. The sounds varied considerably at different 
points, as we moved across the lake, as if the 
number of the animals from which they proceeded 
was greatest in particular spots; and occasionally 
we rowed out of hearing of them altogether, 
until, on returning to the original locality, the 
sounds were at once renewed. This fact seems 
to indicate that the causes of the sounds, what¬ 
ever they may be, are stationary at several points, 
and this agrees with the statement of the natives, 
that they are produced by mollusca, and -not by 
fish They came evidently and sensibly from the 
depth of the lake; and there was nothing in the 
surrounding circumstances to support the con¬ 
jecture that they could be the reverberation of 
noises made by insects on the shore conveyed 
along the surface of the water; for they were 
loudest and most distinct at points where the 
nature of the land, and the intervention of the 
Fort and its buildings, forbade the possibility of 
this kind of conduction.”—Chambers’ Journal. 
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