But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some adventurous rover would break in upon their peaceful repose. and astonished at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted to claim the merit of a new discovery.

Most of the upstream river network are small gravel-dominated lowland streams (LAWA river type 16, [11 ]) belonging to the hyporhithral region according to Illies [12 ] with Leuciscus leuciscus, Phoxinus phoxinus and Salmo trutta as key fish species.

The festival seems to be winding down now.

Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.