Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... 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 scepticism now so fashionable with regard to the virtues of cer- tain oils used ...
... 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 scepticism now so fashionable with regard to the virtues of cer- tain oils used ...
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... taken , and , some say , make a noise like a cuckoo , from which he takes one of his country Mag . Nat . Hist . vol . iii . names . Mr. Yarrell observes : -The maigre , a large sea fish , when swimming in shoals , utters a grunt- ing or ...
... taken , and , some say , make a noise like a cuckoo , from which he takes one of his country Mag . Nat . Hist . vol . iii . names . Mr. Yarrell observes : -The maigre , a large sea fish , when swimming in shoals , utters a grunt- ing or ...
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... taken in a sein at Port Jackson ; they discharged , when captured , a large 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 ...
... taken in a sein at Port Jackson ; they discharged , when captured , a large 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 ...
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... taken out by a bodkin or any other pointed instrument , and will form an excellent marking ink . The letters or figures made with this liquor will change to several colours , when placed in the sun , ac- cording to the time of day and ...
... taken out by a bodkin or any other pointed instrument , and will form an excellent marking ink . The letters or figures made with this liquor will change to several colours , when placed in the sun , ac- cording to the time of day and ...
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... taken from the sea , and said to contain small monoculi , and entomo- straced with the ova of starfish . Common salmon are said to feed on small fish , and various small marine animals . - Sir William Jardine on the Common Salmon , Edin ...
... taken from the sea , and said to contain small monoculi , and entomo- straced with the ova of starfish . Common salmon are said to feed on small fish , and various small marine animals . - Sir William Jardine on the Common Salmon , Edin ...
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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.