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TITLE: A MASHIR RIVER OF SOUTHERN INDIA |
Author: Lieut. . Col. R.W.Burton |
Journal, Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. (45) No 3, 1939-40 Page no 595. |
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The majority of visitors to the blue mountain of southern India see the Bhavani river at Mettupalaiyam..There are monster mashir in those wonderful pools and deep runs as has been discovered by a few adventurous sportsman. But malaria - the most efficient and ever watchful of all game wardens preserves the wild beasts and the fish from all destroying hand man .To some extent the Bhavani river, is similarly protected for the first ten miles about Mettupalaiyam, but for twenty miles above that it is lovely fishing river.