Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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Page 10
... Air is manifested , by the suffocating fish instantly crowding to any aperture made in the Ice , where , to obtain it , they will suffer themselves to be caught by the hand . Next to the necessity of breathing air , that of 10.
... Air is manifested , by the suffocating fish instantly crowding to any aperture made in the Ice , where , to obtain it , they will suffer themselves to be caught by the hand . Next to the necessity of breathing air , that of 10.
Page 16
... caught , or under whatever circumstances it has been killed , if it be fat and in good health , nothing is ever found in its stomach , that gives the smallest token that it was either of vegetable or animal origin . The only contents of ...
... caught , or under whatever circumstances it has been killed , if it be fat and in good health , nothing is ever found in its stomach , that gives the smallest token that it was either of vegetable or animal origin . The only contents of ...
Page 21
... caught in the Rhine , which did not weigh - April 4 . May 4 , 1764 . Ditto . 5 . 43,615 68 65 29,799 42-1 / 2 86 9,486 42/22 62 of that Spe - 5 10 361 81,586 39 226 2 , 1765 . cies . ) 6 9 101 / 417 113,841 42 273 6 . -7 3 8 2134 45,475 ...
... caught in the Rhine , which did not weigh - April 4 . May 4 , 1764 . Ditto . 5 . 43,615 68 65 29,799 42-1 / 2 86 9,486 42/22 62 of that Spe - 5 10 361 81,586 39 226 2 , 1765 . cies . ) 6 9 101 / 417 113,841 42 273 6 . -7 3 8 2134 45,475 ...
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... caught in ponds that have been carefully secured from common depredators , and at the same time neglected by the Owners for a long series of years , which extra size may be justly ascribed to their great age ; nor is there risque that ...
... caught in ponds that have been carefully secured from common depredators , and at the same time neglected by the Owners for a long series of years , which extra size may be justly ascribed to their great age ; nor is there risque that ...
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... caught fish sufficient to find employ for near fifteen thousand British seamen , and to afford subsistence at home , to a much more numerous body of people , who are engaged in the various manufactures which so vast a fishery demands ...
... caught fish sufficient to find employ for near fifteen thousand British seamen , and to afford subsistence at home , to a much more numerous body of people , who are engaged in the various manufactures which so vast a fishery demands ...
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abundance altho Angler angling animals appear bait Barrels belly birds bite body bottom Bream breed brown called Carp caught Charr Chub Cock colour Dace deep dorsal fin dusky Eels eggs fasten feathers feed feet fins fish fishery flies float four Game Gamekeeper gentle Gillaroo Grayling ground Gudgeon hackle hair half head holes hook inches justice of peace keep killed kind lake Lapwing length Loch manor middle miles Minnow mohair mountains mouth never night numbers ounces Partridges Perch person Pheasant Pike plenty pond pounds pounds weight Quadrupeds quantity quill rain rises river Roach runs Salmon season shank shooting shot side silk Snipes soon Spaniels spawn species spot spring streams summer tail taken Tench Trout weeds weighed Wild Fowl wind wings winter Woodcocks woods worms yards young