Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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Page 5
... persons approach by whom their food is accustomed to be given , that they collect themselves together to receive it . Upon this Organ of hearing in fishes , the late Mr. JOHN HUNTER . observes very differently , and his Authority ...
... persons approach by whom their food is accustomed to be given , that they collect themselves together to receive it . Upon this Organ of hearing in fishes , the late Mr. JOHN HUNTER . observes very differently , and his Authority ...
Page 16
... an incontrovertible fact , that in stagnating pools , occasioned by the rain in Bombay , which have no communication with any river or the Sea , fishes are generated , of which many persons have eaten , and which upon 16.
... an incontrovertible fact , that in stagnating pools , occasioned by the rain in Bombay , which have no communication with any river or the Sea , fishes are generated , of which many persons have eaten , and which upon 16.
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... persons at Newfoundland for six months in the year , and the value of the Fish and Oil , was then computed at three hundred eighty - six thousand four hundred pounds . The increase of Shipping that resorts to these fertile banks is now ...
... persons at Newfoundland for six months in the year , and the value of the Fish and Oil , was then computed at three hundred eighty - six thousand four hundred pounds . The increase of Shipping that resorts to these fertile banks is now ...
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... persons called Huers are placed on eminences , to point to the boats stationed off the land the course of the fish , by whose directions sometimes a Bay of several miles extent is enclosed with their nets , called Seines . By the first ...
... persons called Huers are placed on eminences , to point to the boats stationed off the land the course of the fish , by whose directions sometimes a Bay of several miles extent is enclosed with their nets , called Seines . By the first ...
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... persons engaged in it would be unoccupied several parts of the year ; but this Objection has little force ; there are many manufactories inseparably connected with this branch of traffic , such as dressing of Hemp , spinning of Twine ...
... persons engaged in it would be unoccupied several parts of the year ; but this Objection has little force ; there are many manufactories inseparably connected with this branch of traffic , such as dressing of Hemp , spinning of Twine ...
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