Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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Page 8
... pass outwards from the brain , and appear to terminate at once on the external surface of the swelling of the semi - circular tubes above described . They do not seem to pass . through them so as to get on the inside , as is supposed to ...
... pass outwards from the brain , and appear to terminate at once on the external surface of the swelling of the semi - circular tubes above described . They do not seem to pass . through them so as to get on the inside , as is supposed to ...
Page 10
... pass quickly through the gills , without any apparent effort to separate them , probably but a small quantity of the former is absorbed , but , by the frequent transition of the water , a sufficiency of it may be admitted , to supply ...
... pass quickly through the gills , without any apparent effort to separate them , probably but a small quantity of the former is absorbed , but , by the frequent transition of the water , a sufficiency of it may be admitted , to supply ...
Page 14
... 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 those ...
... 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 those ...
Page 17
... passing and repassing many times over every spot where he finds the Eggs . Summer is the usual spawning time , because at that season the water is tepified by the beams of the Sun , and for quickening the Eggs into life , is therefore ...
... passing and repassing many times over every spot where he finds the Eggs . Summer is the usual spawning time , because at that season the water is tepified by the beams of the Sun , and for quickening the Eggs into life , is therefore ...
Page 33
... pass through the British Channel , and after that in a manner dis- appear . Those which take to the West , after offering ... passes into the Irish sea , rejoices and feeds the inhabitants of most of the coasts that border upon it . In ...
... pass through the British Channel , and after that in a manner dis- appear . Those which take to the West , after offering ... passes into the Irish sea , rejoices and feeds the inhabitants of most of the coasts that border upon it . In ...
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