A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... boats when fish- ing for sprats or herrings . The BLACK - THROATED DIVER has the fore part of the ter at Chesapeake Bay . In the summer , they retire to the fresh water lakes , and they are reported to breed in the New England States ...
... boats when fish- ing for sprats or herrings . The BLACK - THROATED DIVER has the fore part of the ter at Chesapeake Bay . In the summer , they retire to the fresh water lakes , and they are reported to breed in the New England States ...
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... boat , or on a projection of the cliff , assist his progress till he pro- cures a firm footing . When this is accomplished , he draws the others up with a rope , and another man is forwarded again by means of the pole to a higher ...
... boat , or on a projection of the cliff , assist his progress till he pro- cures a firm footing . When this is accomplished , he draws the others up with a rope , and another man is forwarded again by means of the pole to a higher ...
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... boats , watching their course by the air bubbles when they dive , and always striking them when they rise to the surface wearied . The flesh is valued as food , and their skins are made into warm and comfortable under garments . THE ...
... boats , watching their course by the air bubbles when they dive , and always striking them when they rise to the surface wearied . The flesh is valued as food , and their skins are made into warm and comfortable under garments . THE ...
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... boat together . They have always , while they fish , a string fastened round their throats , to prevent them from devouring their prey . " Such was for- merly the practice in England ; and as late as the reign of Charles I. there was an ...
... boat together . They have always , while they fish , a string fastened round their throats , to prevent them from devouring their prey . " Such was for- merly the practice in England ; and as late as the reign of Charles I. there was an ...
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... boat with three men in it , with a single blow of the tail , by which all went to the bottom . The other still attended its companion , and lent it every assistance ; till , at last , the fish that was struck sunk under the number of ...
... boat with three men in it , with a single blow of the tail , by which all went to the bottom . The other still attended its companion , and lent it every assistance ; till , at last , the fish that was struck sunk under the number of ...
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Alligator anal fins animal appears ash colour back fin bait belly bill bird boat body bones bottom brown called claws coasts common covered CRAB creature Crocodile danger deep devour dorsal fin DUCK dusky Eels eggs EIDER DUCK England eyes feathers feed feet long female fish fishermen flesh Frog furnished genus gills goose Greenland grows GULL head hundred inches in length inches long inhabitants kind known lakes lateral line legs lizard mackerel manner motion mouth MULTIVALVE neck pectoral fins placed plumage pounds pounds weight prey quadrupeds rays resembles rivers round scales season seen seize seldom Serpent Shark shell shoals shore side silvery skin slender snail Snake sometimes spawn species spermaceti spines spots surface swimming tail taken teeth thick Toad Tortoise tribe upper venomous ventral ventral fins Viper viviparous weighs whale whole wings wound yellow young