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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of the gallery railings display as manydifferent fishes. The circular story is surrounded by a broadexterior gallery, and the four flanking towers of the entrances and 14 2IO FISHERIES. the four smaller towers of the central roof terminate in openturrets from which delightful views of the grounds are obtained. The roofs are covered with glazedSpanish tile. The east and westpavilions, which are reached bythe curved arcades, are favoriteresorts for the public, especially forthose interested in fishing, eitherfor sport or commercial purposes.The east pavilion is built forexhibiting Hve fish in aquaria. Inthe centre of this building is arotunda nearly 60 feet in diameter.It surrounds a basin about one-third the width, and this in turncontains an irregular-shaped massof rock, that rises from the centreto a heio^ht of ten or twelve feet.From the crevices and projectingpoints of this craggy monumenttiny streams of water fall to thebasin below. In the pool arevarious kinds of fish: the black
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SUPERINTHNDENT OF AQUARIUM. bass, the lake sturo^eon andthe giant cat fish contrastingprettily with the more gor-geously colored goldenides and other ornamentalspecies. Tlie larger seriesof aquaria, ten in number,surround the pool, with apassage-way between sixteenfeet wide. These have acapacity ranging from 7,000 to 27,000 gallons of water, the largestbeing about fifty feet long. In the arched tympana above these arewrought out many curious designs of aquatic import—gigantic

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