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... quantity , they fill with it the shell of a fresh hen's egg , which they have previously emptied , stop up the holes , and put it under a sitting fowl . At the expiration of a certain number of days , they break the shell in water ...
... quantity , they fill with it the shell of a fresh hen's egg , which they have previously emptied , stop up the holes , and put it under a sitting fowl . At the expiration of a certain number of days , they break the shell in water ...
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... quantity of thick black fluid , a very minute proportion of which renders turbid a large quantity of water . It is from this fluid that the material known by the name of China , or Indian ink is manufactured . The ancients used this ...
... quantity of thick black fluid , a very minute proportion of which renders turbid a large quantity of water . It is from this fluid that the material known by the name of China , or Indian ink is manufactured . The ancients used this ...
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... quantity of it . He has thus kept salmon , whitings , and cod , for an indefinite length of time ; and by this simple means fresh fish may be kept in that state some days , so as to be as good when boiled as when just caught . 14 ...
... quantity of it . He has thus kept salmon , whitings , and cod , for an indefinite length of time ; and by this simple means fresh fish may be kept in that state some days , so as to be as good when boiled as when just caught . 14 ...
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... quantities of salmon are left on the dry ground , —if it was not for violent winds , assisted by the bears and wild dogs feeding on them , the fish left would soon produce a pestilence , their stench is so powerful . Daniel . In the ...
... quantities of salmon are left on the dry ground , —if it was not for violent winds , assisted by the bears and wild dogs feeding on them , the fish left would soon produce a pestilence , their stench is so powerful . Daniel . In the ...
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... quantity of pea , but they were not in a very forward state , being about the size of swan shot . The next day his wife boiled part of this fish for their dinner , but it was not eatable ; it looked like glue ; the appearance was enough ...
... quantity of pea , but they were not in a very forward state , being about the size of swan shot . The next day his wife boiled part of this fish for their dinner , but it was not eatable ; it looked like glue ; the appearance was enough ...
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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.