Rural Sports, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1807 |
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... covered with a hard bony substance , by which they are de- prived of almost all power of discriminating differ- ent bodies by the Palate , insomuch , that the salt- water fishes have been known to swallow the Fisher- men's plummet ...
... covered with a hard bony substance , by which they are de- prived of almost all power of discriminating differ- ent bodies by the Palate , insomuch , that the salt- water fishes have been known to swallow the Fisher- men's plummet ...
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... covered with them , from six to eighteen inches deep ; and the ground under water , so far as could be seen when the tide was out , was equally so . So thick and forcible was the shoal as to carry before it every other kind of fish ...
... covered with them , from six to eighteen inches deep ; and the ground under water , so far as could be seen when the tide was out , was equally so . So thick and forcible was the shoal as to carry before it every other kind of fish ...
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... covered with Myriads of diminutive black spots . These increased in size daily , and , by degrees , eclipsed the appearance of the Wood : he found them to be Muscles , and that they spread to a prodigious extent , keeping their holds so ...
... covered with Myriads of diminutive black spots . These increased in size daily , and , by degrees , eclipsed the appearance of the Wood : he found them to be Muscles , and that they spread to a prodigious extent , keeping their holds so ...
Contents
Fishing and Anecdotes respecting the Natural | 37 |
Account of Rivers in England Scotland | 77 |
Angling | 219 |
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