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... fishermen , is probably erroneous , and it is not unlikely that the se- baceous glands in the heron's legs are at- tractive to fish . Nor are fishes without the sense of hearing , although destitute of either external conch or internal ...
... fishermen , is probably erroneous , and it is not unlikely that the se- baceous glands in the heron's legs are at- tractive to fish . Nor are fishes without the sense of hearing , although destitute of either external conch or internal ...
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... fishermen once took twenty maigres by a single sweep of their net . The coasts of Great Britain do yield such a continued sea harvest of gain and benefit to all those that with diligence do labour in the same , that no time or season of ...
... fishermen once took twenty maigres by a single sweep of their net . The coasts of Great Britain do yield such a continued sea harvest of gain and benefit to all those that with diligence do labour in the same , that no time or season of ...
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... fishermen collect , with care , on the margin and surface of the waters , all those gelatinous masses which contain the spawn of fish . After they have found a sufficient quantity , they fill with it the shell of a fresh hen's egg ...
... fishermen collect , with care , on the margin and surface of the waters , all those gelatinous masses which contain the spawn of fish . After they have found a sufficient quantity , they fill with it the shell of a fresh hen's egg ...
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... fisherman of them all ; and when some belike objected to him the basenesse of his office , he excused himselfe , that if other men might hunt hares , why should not he hunt carpes ? Many gentlemen in like sort with us , will wade up to ...
... fisherman of them all ; and when some belike objected to him the basenesse of his office , he excused himselfe , that if other men might hunt hares , why should not he hunt carpes ? Many gentlemen in like sort with us , will wade up to ...
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... fishermen , on going out . Gent . Mag . A salmon taken out on the 7th of March , in the river Mersey , weighed seven pounds ; being marked with scissars on the back fins and tail , it was again turned into the river , and being retaken ...
... fishermen , on going out . Gent . Mag . A salmon taken out on the 7th of March , in the river Mersey , weighed seven pounds ; being marked with scissars on the back fins and tail , it was again turned into the river , and being retaken ...
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Page 8 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Page 19 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 20 - Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, weeles, baites, angling, or otherwise, and yields all out as much pleasure to some men as dogs or hawkes. When they draw the fish upon the banke, saith Nic.
Page 44 - Some years since a herdsman, on a very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an Eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued : when the...
Page 182 - Indians, gain the banks, and, overcome by fatigue, and benumbed by the shocks, stretch themselves at their length on the ground. There could not, says Humboldt, be a finer subject for the painter : groups of Indians surrounding the bason; the horses with their hair on end, and terror and agony in their eyes ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great aquatic serpents, swimming on the surface of the water in pursuit of their enemy.