Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... pounds of this flour , which resembles that of cassava . When it is wanted for eating , it is mixed with water , and reduced to a paste . Humboldt . Savage nations , as the Kamstschatdales , Bra- zilians , & c . possess the art of ...
... pounds of this flour , which resembles that of cassava . When it is wanted for eating , it is mixed with water , and reduced to a paste . Humboldt . Savage nations , as the Kamstschatdales , Bra- zilians , & c . possess the art of ...
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... pounds weight ; and if salt is desired , a tea - spoonful or more may be added . Saltpetre may be used instead , in the same proportion , if it is desired to make the kipper hard . Placing fish in ice when in a putrefactive state will ...
... pounds weight ; and if salt is desired , a tea - spoonful or more may be added . Saltpetre may be used instead , in the same proportion , if it is desired to make the kipper hard . Placing fish in ice when in a putrefactive state will ...
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... as it produced him forty pounds per year . His face bore the marks of former storms , but present fair weather ; its furrows had been worn into an habitual smile ; his iron grey locks hung about his 24 PISCATORIAL REMINISCENCES.
... as it produced him forty pounds per year . His face bore the marks of former storms , but present fair weather ; its furrows had been worn into an habitual smile ; his iron grey locks hung about his 24 PISCATORIAL REMINISCENCES.
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... pound weight . Awe seems to be a delightful place , and good accommodation there for brothers of the angle . The disciple of Walton who has once indulged in salmon fishing , will feel little satisfaction in the more common pursuits and ...
... pound weight . Awe seems to be a delightful place , and good accommodation there for brothers of the angle . The disciple of Walton who has once indulged in salmon fishing , will feel little satisfaction in the more common pursuits and ...
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... pound , but now they fetch two shillings , and three and six - pence : they leave their salt water haunts , and are earlier in the Severn , than any other English river . In January , 1833 , a very fine fish , nearly a yard in length ...
... pound , but now they fetch two shillings , and three and six - pence : they leave their salt water haunts , and are earlier in the Severn , than any other English river . In January , 1833 , a very fine fish , nearly a yard in length ...
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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 printed quantity 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 worm 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 192 - Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water, others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill whistling noise as if in play. I was told that most of the fishermen in this neighbourhood kept one or more of these animals, who were almost as tame as dogs, and of great use in fishing, sometimes driving the shoals into the nets, sometimes bringing out the larger fish with their teeth.
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...