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d golden sides: takes no bait? _Chota Raiwah_.--Gobio occurs in shoals--either occupied in busily turning up its silvery sides against the bottom, or at the surface, above which it may be seen protruding its head. _Bhangun_.--Gobio, a handsome fish, not esteemed. _Potea_.--Systomus, takes bait--worms; affords good sport and reaches to one seer, but is not esteemed; colours ordinary. _Systomus_, a beautiful fish, back shining green, sides yellow, scales beautifully striate, with a spot near the tail; mostly found in still water. _Gonorrhynchus_.--Snout rough, colours sombre, belly somewhat protuberant; found with Systomus. The intestines are of the usual form of the genus. Gonorrhynchus, a sombre smaller fish, found in still water. _Bura Chalwa_.--Much esteemed as food in the districts of the Sutledge. _Perilampus_.--Intestines shorter than the body, having at the lower end a short curve; above green, from lateral line downwards silvery. _Moh_.--A _Siluroid_ fish, does not attain the size of the real Moh, which is a higher or deeper formed fish. _Tengrei_.--Silurus platycephalus. Attains a very large size. _Gudha_.--A Percoid. Colour irregular brown, mouth very protractile. _Gughal_.--Ophiocephalus, a handsome fish, back rich greenish, mottled brown, with 3 or 4 black spots on the sides, which are yellow, passing off into white, and a peacock spot on the tail. Fins spotted with white: it reaches a large size. _Bham_.--Macrognathus, body eel-shaped, with a row of movable spines along the back. About Loodianah, the Naiad of Affghanistan, Monandra, stigmatibus reniformibus, is common in the Nullah, so also is Butomus begonifolius, but this may be a leafless form of Sagittaria. Towards Roopur, Sissoo becomes more and more common. Roopur is a largish town, with a Seikh pucka fort on a mound. The fort is surrounded by a dry ditch. The town is situated on a low, rather rugged ground, forming the first elevations of the surface towards the Himalayas; beyond it to the north-east is a low spur, also to the west a similar spur, very barren, rugged, clayey rock forming the immediate bank of the river. Every thing assimilates to the Bukriala and Jhilun ranges. Saccharum, _Moong_, as before, _Bheir_ likewise occurs. Phoenix, Dalbergia sissoo, Ficus, Adhatoda, Boerhaavia scandens, Hyperanthera, Morus, Apluda, Tamarisk, Riccia, Ammannia, Euphorbia antiquorum, Cactus, and Dodonaea, form the chie
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