Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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... 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 progress is stopt when swimming rapidly forward ...
... 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 progress is stopt when swimming rapidly forward ...
Page 14
... keep aloof from the great Mass of them ; so it is with other fishes , who delight in the herring as a prey , but as a body , scem to dread their multitudes . That Herrings obtain their subsistence directly from Water , in which they ...
... keep aloof from the great Mass of them ; so it is with other fishes , who delight in the herring as a prey , but as a body , scem to dread their multitudes . That Herrings obtain their subsistence directly from Water , in which they ...
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... keep their limits . The best of these Hadocks were sold from eight - pence to a shilling per score , and the poor had a smaller sort at a penny , and sometimes a halfpenny per score . . Fishermen assert , that when the sea is rough , 30.
... keep their limits . The best of these Hadocks were sold from eight - pence to a shilling per score , and the poor had a smaller sort at a penny , and sometimes a halfpenny per score . . Fishermen assert , that when the sea is rough , 30.
Page 37
... keeping , and , if eaten in small quantities , they dissolve the slime in the stomach , and stimulate the appetite . The ... keep shifting . The appearance of the Pilchard is known by the Birds and larger Fishes attendant upon them , and ...
... keeping , and , if eaten in small quantities , they dissolve the slime in the stomach , and stimulate the appetite . The ... keep shifting . The appearance of the Pilchard is known by the Birds and larger Fishes attendant upon them , and ...
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... keep in the river Thurso all the year . The small river Rice descends from Wester Loch to Sinclair's Bay ; both the Loch and river are well stored with excellent Trout . In the river Berridale , near the castle of that name , there is ...
... keep in the river Thurso all the year . The small river Rice descends from Wester Loch to Sinclair's Bay ; both the Loch and river are well stored with excellent Trout . In the river Berridale , near the castle of that name , there is ...
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