Rural Sports, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1812 |
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... bottom : if the right pectoral fin only be cut off , the fish leans to that side ; if the Ventral fin on the same side be cut away , then it loses its Equi- librium entirely : if the dorsal and ventral fins be cut off , the fish reels ...
... bottom : if the right pectoral fin only be cut off , the fish leans to that side ; if the Ventral fin on the same side be cut away , then it loses its Equi- librium entirely : if the dorsal and ventral fins be cut off , the fish reels ...
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... bottom of the wa- ter have an air bladder , such as the Eel and the Flounder ; and many are entirely without any , that swim at ease in every depth , for instance the Gudgeon . Naturalists have assigned different uses to this bladder ...
... bottom of the wa- ter have an air bladder , such as the Eel and the Flounder ; and many are entirely without any , that swim at ease in every depth , for instance the Gudgeon . Naturalists have assigned different uses to this bladder ...
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... bottom was level with the ground , and was made by forming a bank all around , with a Shrubbery close to it ; whilst lying on the bank seeing the fish , I desired a Gentleman , who was my companion , to go behind the Shrubs ( that there ...
... bottom was level with the ground , and was made by forming a bank all around , with a Shrubbery close to it ; whilst lying on the bank seeing the fish , I desired a Gentleman , who was my companion , to go behind the Shrubs ( that there ...
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... bottom of the Eye , not in the Centre or Middle , but a little on one side ; not in the point where the Axis of the Eye meets the Retina , but between that point and the Nose . The difference which this makes , is , that no part of an ...
... bottom of the Eye , not in the Centre or Middle , but a little on one side ; not in the point where the Axis of the Eye meets the Retina , but between that point and the Nose . The difference which this makes , is , that no part of an ...
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... bottom . Ships are said to have been retarded in their course in passing through these Shoals , and instances are recorded where these little fishes have been left by the Ebbing of the tide in heaps three feet deep upon the shores for ...
... bottom . Ships are said to have been retarded in their course in passing through these Shoals , and instances are recorded where these little fishes have been left by the Ebbing of the tide in heaps three feet deep upon the shores for ...
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abundance anal fins Angler angling artificial fly bait banks Barbel belly bite body bottom Bream Bridge Bristol Channel brown called Carp caught Charr Chub colour cork course Dace deep Ditto dorsal fin Dubbing Eels fasten feather feet fish Fishermen fishery flies float flows four fresh gentle Gillaroo Grayling ground-bait Gudgeon hackle hair head herl holes hook inches long joins Justice of peace kind Lake length lob-worms Loch Lough miles Minnow mohair mountains mouth nearly numbers PENNANT Perch piece Pike plenty pond pounds pounds weight quantity rain rises river Roach round runs Salmon salt Season Severn shank Shoals side silk sort spawn species spot Spring streams Summer tail taken Tench Thames tion town Trout twist warp weeds weighed whip wind wings worms yards yellow
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Page 447 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy hird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Page 119 - The bright-ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye. The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Page 223 - A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.
Page 182 - Fyers pours his mossy floods ; Till full he dashes on the rocky mounds, Where, through a shapeless breach, his stream resounds. As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless echo's ear, astonish'd, rends.
Page 173 - On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...
Page 283 - For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine...
Page 451 - ... the hackle into the bent of the hook, with the hollow (which is the palest) side upwards, and whip it very fast to its place; in doing whereof, be careful not to tie in many of the fibres; or if you should chance to do so, pick them out with the point of a very large needle.
Page 68 - By this book and by the Holy contents thereof and by the wonderful works that God hath miraculously wrought in Heaven above and in the Earth beneath in Six days and Seven nights: I...
Page 117 - She said ! the world obey'd, and all was peace ! In that blest moment from his oozy bed Old father Thames advanc'd his reverend head ; His tresses dropp'd with dews, and o'er the stream His shining horns diffus'da golden gleam : Grav'd on his urn appear'd the moon, that guides His swelling waters and alternate tides ; The figur'd streams in waves of silver roll'd, And on her banks Augusta rose in gold.
Page 174 - ... pride, The salmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par.* Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And hedges flower'd with eglantine.