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... rivers must form a very distinguished feature in Zoology . In the vast world of waters the animal kingdom presents the ex- tremes of bulk and minuteness ; from the myriads of minute beings , which would be invisible to us without the ...
... rivers must form a very distinguished feature in Zoology . In the vast world of waters the animal kingdom presents the ex- tremes of bulk and minuteness ; from the myriads of minute beings , which would be invisible to us without the ...
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... river the minutest midge or gnat as soon as it drops , and the lively worm is taken with eagerness , when one that is dead or diseased , is refused , as much pro- bably by the exercise of the olfactory , as of the visual powers . The ...
... river the minutest midge or gnat as soon as it drops , and the lively worm is taken with eagerness , when one that is dead or diseased , is refused , as much pro- bably by the exercise of the olfactory , as of the visual powers . The ...
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... river water every other day , with wheat flour , grated bread for roach , dace , bleak , & c . besides pike , eel , and flounders , in other pans . Gent . Mag . lxxiii . 1108 . Blumenbach , in his " Manual of Natural His- tory ...
... river water every other day , with wheat flour , grated bread for roach , dace , bleak , & c . besides pike , eel , and flounders , in other pans . Gent . Mag . lxxiii . 1108 . Blumenbach , in his " Manual of Natural His- tory ...
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... river beetle , which lives ha- bitually on the eggs of fishes , climbs sometimes in the evening , on the reeds , high enough for its flight , and then takes wing . One was caught whilst flying , and being put into water , it emitted the ...
... river beetle , which lives ha- bitually on the eggs of fishes , climbs sometimes in the evening , on the reeds , high enough for its flight , and then takes wing . One was caught whilst flying , and being put into water , it emitted the ...
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... rivers , in sweet pastures , amongst odoriferous flowers , which gratify his senses and delight his mind ; and these contentments induce many to choose those places of pleasure for their summer recreation and health . " Col. Venables ...
... rivers , in sweet pastures , amongst odoriferous flowers , which gratify his senses and delight his mind ; and these contentments induce many to choose those places of pleasure for their summer recreation and health . " Col. Venables ...
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2nd edit 3rd edit 4th edit Angler in Ireland animals appears Art of Angling bait barbel begynneth boat boke bones bottom bream carp catch caught chub colour dace Dagenham delight Editor eels fastened feet long fins Fish and Fish Fish Ponds fisher fishermen five flies fly-fishing four fresh water fysshyng Gent gentle gentleman grayling gudgeon Hawking Hist hook hundred Hunting huntynge Ichthyophagi Imprynted at London inches in length inches long inhabitants Ireland John Hawkins lake Lond mackerel Method of Fishing minnow mouth native natural Pallas Pennant perch pike Piscatory pounds weight quantity red worm resembles river River Thames roach salmon salt sea fish season shad small fish smelt spawn species Sporting Mag stickleback streams sturgeon surface swimming tackle tail taken tench Thames Treatise trolling trout Walton weighed wood-cut Wynkyn de Worde young
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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.