Rural Sports, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1807 |
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Page 385
... Carp that had been an inha- bitant seventy years . They also grow to a very large size ; are sometimes caught in the LAGO DI COмO , in Italy , weighing two hundred pounds , and in the DNEISTER , five feet in length . Sir JOHN HAW- KINS ...
... Carp that had been an inha- bitant seventy years . They also grow to a very large size ; are sometimes caught in the LAGO DI COмO , in Italy , weighing two hundred pounds , and in the DNEISTER , five feet in length . Sir JOHN HAW- KINS ...
Page 387
... Carp plainly boiled will not turn out such insipid meat as is generally thought . Carp are frequently sweet and well flavoured when taken out of the muddiest ponds where they have plenty of food , and the stock of fish is not too large ...
... Carp plainly boiled will not turn out such insipid meat as is generally thought . Carp are frequently sweet and well flavoured when taken out of the muddiest ponds where they have plenty of food , and the stock of fish is not too large ...
Page 567
... Carp and Tench , and the two latter will consume all the food which should be the sub- sistence of both parents and progeny ; Pike , Bream , and Roach should , therefore , on no account be ever put into the first or highest of a ...
... Carp and Tench , and the two latter will consume all the food which should be the sub- sistence of both parents and progeny ; Pike , Bream , and Roach should , therefore , on no account be ever put into the first or highest of a ...
Contents
Fishing and Anecdotes respecting the Natural | 37 |
Account of Rivers in England Scotland | 77 |
Angling | 219 |
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