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Title: Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon : with narratives and anecdotes illustrative of the habits and instincts of the mammalia, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. : including a monograph of the elephant and a description of the modes of capturing and training it with engravings from original drawings
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Tennent, James Emerson, Sir, 1804-1869 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Zoology Elephants
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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f/o JcdOly PEAKL UYSTI-.U. 1. 2. The jouiip hrooil or tpal..1. rl<i.•1. 8ix nioiitli. old. 5. One year old.tl. T«o years old.
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THE PEARL OYSTER.Full Growth. Chap. XI.) MUSICAL SEA-SOUNDS. 381 often heard issuing from the bottom of the lake, at severalplaces, both above and below tlie ferry opposite the oldDutch Fort; and which the natives suppose to proceedfrom some fish peculiar to the locality. The report wasconfirmed in all its particulars, and one of the spotswhence the sounds proceed was pointed out between thepier and a rock that intersects the channel, two or threehundred yards to the eastward. They were said to beheard at night, and most distinctly when the moon wasnearest the full, and they were described as resemblingthe faint sweet notes of an ^olian harp. I sent forsome of the fishermen, who said they were perfectlyaware of the fact, and that their fathers had alwaysknown of the existence of the musical sounds, heard, theysaid, at the spot alluded to, but only during the dryseason, as they cease when the lake is swollen by thefreshes after the rain. They believed them to proceednot from a fish, bu

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