Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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... body ; by the impulse of the tail alone , it then glides through the water with the swiftness of an arrow ; the other fins are too minute and flexible , compared with the animal's weight , to impel it so quickly ; their principal use is ...
... body ; by the impulse of the tail alone , it then glides through the water with the swiftness of an arrow ; the other fins are too minute and flexible , compared with the animal's weight , to impel it so quickly ; their principal use is ...
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... body ; and as their watery Element is of different degrees of weight , according to its depth , they thus possess a power of varying their specific gravity , of swimming easily at a great depth , and of poising themselves in any part of ...
... body ; and as their watery Element is of different degrees of weight , according to its depth , they thus possess a power of varying their specific gravity , of swimming easily at a great depth , and of poising themselves in any part of ...
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... bodies by the Palate , insomuch , that the salt - water fishes have been known to swallow the fishermen's plummet , instead of the bait . The greediness which Sea fish discover , and by which they are taken , is prodigious ; the lines ...
... bodies by the Palate , insomuch , that the salt - water fishes have been known to swallow the fishermen's plummet , instead of the bait . The greediness which Sea fish discover , and by which they are taken , is prodigious ; the lines ...
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... near . In all animals , Respiration , or the admission of Air into the body , seems necessary to the support of life ; in the spinous fishes , which are more immediately the objects within our notice , respiration is VOL . II . D 9.
... near . In all animals , Respiration , or the admission of Air into the body , seems necessary to the support of life ; in the spinous fishes , which are more immediately the objects within our notice , respiration is VOL . II . D 9.
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... body ; but the precise manner in which this operation is carried on , is one of those secrets of Nature , which neither the Glasses nor the Knife of the Anatomist have ever yet been able to develope . Those who have seen a fish in water ...
... body ; but the precise manner in which this operation is carried on , is one of those secrets of Nature , which neither the Glasses nor the Knife of the Anatomist have ever yet been able to develope . Those who have seen a fish in water ...
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