Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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... course . The Ventral and Dorsal fins serve to keep the fish in a perpendicular posture , and possibly the first contributes to raise or sink them ; the Pectoral fins assist and regulate progressive motion ; by extending them , the ...
... course . The Ventral and Dorsal fins serve to keep the fish in a perpendicular posture , and possibly the first contributes to raise or sink them ; the Pectoral fins assist and regulate progressive motion ; by extending them , the ...
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... course perish ; and the eagerness to procure a supply of 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 ...
... course perish ; and the eagerness to procure a supply of 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 ...
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... course in passing through these shoals , and instances are recorded where these little fishes have been left by the ebbing of the tide in heaps three feet deep upon the shores for many miles in extent . It is universally credited among ...
... course in passing through these shoals , and instances are recorded where these little fishes have been left by the ebbing of the tide in heaps three feet deep upon the shores for many miles in extent . It is universally credited among ...
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... course ; yet , no other resemblance can be found between the Shoals of Herrings and the Locusts , but their numbers . These Insects proceed in their career evidently in search of food alone ; the foremost of this pestife- rous throng ...
... course ; yet , no other resemblance can be found between the Shoals of Herrings and the Locusts , but their numbers . These Insects proceed in their career evidently in search of food alone ; the foremost of this pestife- rous throng ...
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... course that blesses and enriches these Islands , which causes them at certain times to quit the vast Polar deeps , and offer themselves to our expecting fleets . That benevolent Being has never from the earliest records , been once ...
... course that blesses and enriches these Islands , which causes them at certain times to quit the vast Polar deeps , and offer themselves to our expecting fleets . That benevolent Being has never from the earliest records , been once ...
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