Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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... seen a fish in water , will recollect the motion of its Lips and Gills , or at least of the bones on each side that cover them ; in the animal , this motion is doubtless analogous to our breathing , but it is not Air , but Water , that ...
... seen a fish in water , will recollect the motion of its Lips and Gills , or at least of the bones on each side that cover them ; in the animal , this motion is doubtless analogous to our breathing , but it is not Air , but Water , that ...
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... seen , altho ' nearly digested , still to retain its original form , and whilst ready for a total dissolution , appears to the Eye , as yet untouched by the force of the stomach . The power of fishes to sustain themselves upon a given ...
... seen , altho ' nearly digested , still to retain its original form , and whilst ready for a total dissolution , appears to the Eye , as yet untouched by the force of the stomach . The power of fishes to sustain themselves upon a given ...
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... seen together among the long grass at the edge of the water ; that there they seem to struggle , and are in a state of suffering , as they grow thin , lose their appetite , whilst their flesh becomes flabby , and in some , the scales ...
... seen together among the long grass at the edge of the water ; that there they seem to struggle , and are in a state of suffering , as they grow thin , lose their appetite , whilst their flesh becomes flabby , and in some , the scales ...
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... seen in the British Channel and upon the Irish coasts ; nor is it easy to assign a reason for this apparently capricious desertion ; were we inclined to consider this partial migration of the Herring in a moral light , we might with awe ...
... seen in the British Channel and upon the Irish coasts ; nor is it easy to assign a reason for this apparently capricious desertion ; were we inclined to consider this partial migration of the Herring in a moral light , we might with awe ...
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... seen ) should exalt a most grateful sense of his Providence , for impressing such an invariable and general propen- sity on these fish towards a Southward migration , where the whole is to be benefitted , and to withdraw it only where a ...
... seen ) should exalt a most grateful sense of his Providence , for impressing such an invariable and general propen- sity on these fish towards a Southward migration , where the whole is to be benefitted , and to withdraw it only where a ...
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