Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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Page 17
... 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 better adapted . How the Eggs of fishes are impreg- nated is wholly unknown ...
... 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 better adapted . How the Eggs of fishes are impreg- nated is wholly unknown ...
Page 37
... Summer they affect a warmer latitude , no quantities being found on any of our coasts , except those of Cornwall ; namely , from Fowey harbour to the Scilly Isles , between which places , for some weeks , the shoals keep shifting . The ...
... Summer they affect a warmer latitude , no quantities being found on any of our coasts , except those of Cornwall ; namely , from Fowey harbour to the Scilly Isles , between which places , for some weeks , the shoals keep shifting . The ...
Page 43
... Forest . There is also the little river Lamburn , which is always highest in summer , and in the midst of winter is said to be entirely dry . Excellent fish are in some of these 43 Account of Rivers in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
... Forest . There is also the little river Lamburn , which is always highest in summer , and in the midst of winter is said to be entirely dry . Excellent fish are in some of these 43 Account of Rivers in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Page 53
... summer is often almost dry ; in its deep pits , are some Trout . . The WEARE finds its source in the same wild range of Moors as the Tees , but considerably to the north of that river . The Weare may be called a miniature of the Tees ...
... summer is often almost dry ; in its deep pits , are some Trout . . The WEARE finds its source in the same wild range of Moors as the Tees , but considerably to the north of that river . The Weare may be called a miniature of the Tees ...
Page 80
... . The Mullets during the summer months fre- quent in great numbers the Blackwater below Maldon , but from the vast quantities of weeds in that river very few are taken . The ADUR rises in the same forest with the Arun 80.
... . The Mullets during the summer months fre- quent in great numbers the Blackwater below Maldon , but from the vast quantities of weeds in that river very few are taken . The ADUR rises in the same forest with the Arun 80.
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