Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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... pounds , generates the first or second year , when perhaps it does not weigh more than half a pound ; and it is certain that the Male seems more attached to the Eggs than the Female , for when she ceases to drop them , the Male ...
... pounds , generates the first or second year , when perhaps it does not weigh more than half a pound ; and it is certain that the Male seems more attached to the Eggs than the Female , for when she ceases to drop them , the Male ...
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... pounds weight , and which might have grown to forty ; whilst that of a Stickleback , the smallest of all known fish , was found to be above sir times bigger than the largest Egg he had ever noticed in a Smelt . THE TABLE . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 20.
... pounds weight , and which might have grown to forty ; whilst that of a Stickleback , the smallest of all known fish , was found to be above sir times bigger than the largest Egg he had ever noticed in a Smelt . THE TABLE . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 20.
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... pounds . 2 0 114 9,604 ROACH ( or 2 6 8 671 what Mr H. 3 3 8 346 took to be 4 2 2 153 PICKEREL . 3 48 10 † 148,000 Ova are said to have been taken from a Pike caught in the Rhine , which did not weigh - April 4 . May 4 , 1764 . Ditto ...
... pounds . 2 0 114 9,604 ROACH ( or 2 6 8 671 what Mr H. 3 3 8 346 took to be 4 2 2 153 PICKEREL . 3 48 10 † 148,000 Ova are said to have been taken from a Pike caught in the Rhine , which did not weigh - April 4 . May 4 , 1764 . Ditto ...
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... pounds each Carp ; of the latter , the largest exceeded Eight pounds . The dietetical uses of fish , are to us the most important part of their history , a part that is happily free from that uncertainty and darkness , in which many ...
... pounds each Carp ; of the latter , the largest exceeded Eight pounds . The dietetical uses of fish , are to us the most important part of their history , a part that is happily free from that uncertainty and darkness , in which many ...
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... pounds . The increase of Shipping that resorts to these fertile banks is now astonishing , supplying all Europe with a considerable share of provision ; our own country yet enjoys the largest share , a pre - eminence that brings Wealth ...
... pounds . The increase of Shipping that resorts to these fertile banks is now astonishing , supplying all Europe with a considerable share of provision ; our own country yet enjoys the largest share , a pre - eminence that brings Wealth ...
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