Rural Sports, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1812 |
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... turn of the scale to the eggs , to tell them very carefully over , and then by dividing the number of Eggs by the grains , to find how many eggs there were in each grain , or nearly so ; Mr. H. says nearly , for by this method there ...
... turn of the scale to the eggs , to tell them very carefully over , and then by dividing the number of Eggs by the grains , to find how many eggs there were in each grain , or nearly so ; Mr. H. says nearly , for by this method there ...
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... turns over , and at last he swims on the surface of the water , with its Belly upwards . upwards . The reason The reason why fishes , when dead , float in that manner , is very obvious , because , when the body is no longer balanced by ...
... turns over , and at last he swims on the surface of the water , with its Belly upwards . upwards . The reason The reason why fishes , when dead , float in that manner , is very obvious , because , when the body is no longer balanced by ...
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... turning sour , it corrupt the water . They will also feed on the water plant called Ducks- meat , and on small fry . It has been said , that the Eyes of fishes are immovable , but these apparently turn them forward or backward in their ...
... turning sour , it corrupt the water . They will also feed on the water plant called Ducks- meat , and on small fry . It has been said , that the Eyes of fishes are immovable , but these apparently turn them forward or backward in their ...
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... turn , and row parallel with the Shore , veering out the Net until it is all out ; then the boat runs on shore , and the Net is hauled in at both ends , by Men on the land . Sometimes 30 or 40,000 have been caught at a draught ; and One ...
... turn , and row parallel with the Shore , veering out the Net until it is all out ; then the boat runs on shore , and the Net is hauled in at both ends , by Men on the land . Sometimes 30 or 40,000 have been caught at a draught ; and One ...
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... turns up , and as well as the un- der jaw is shorter ; the dorsal fin is placed exactly in the centre of gravity , so that when taken up by it , the body preserves an Equilibrium ; that of the Herring dips at the head . The Scales of ...
... turns up , and as well as the un- der jaw is shorter ; the dorsal fin is placed exactly in the centre of gravity , so that when taken up by it , the body preserves an Equilibrium ; that of the Herring dips at the head . The Scales of ...
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Page 447 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride : Let Nature guide thee ; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require ; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy hird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Page 119 - The bright-ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye. The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Page 223 - A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.
Page 182 - Fyers pours his mossy floods ; Till full he dashes on the rocky mounds, Where, through a shapeless breach, his stream resounds. As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless echo's ear, astonish'd, rends.
Page 173 - On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...
Page 283 - For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine...
Page 451 - ... the hackle into the bent of the hook, with the hollow (which is the palest) side upwards, and whip it very fast to its place; in doing whereof, be careful not to tie in many of the fibres; or if you should chance to do so, pick them out with the point of a very large needle.
Page 68 - By this book and by the Holy contents thereof and by the wonderful works that God hath miraculously wrought in Heaven above and in the Earth beneath in Six days and Seven nights: I...
Page 117 - She said ! the world obey'd, and all was peace ! In that blest moment from his oozy bed Old father Thames advanc'd his reverend head ; His tresses dropp'd with dews, and o'er the stream His shining horns diffus'da golden gleam : Grav'd on his urn appear'd the moon, that guides His swelling waters and alternate tides ; The figur'd streams in waves of silver roll'd, And on her banks Augusta rose in gold.
Page 174 - ... pride, The salmon, monarch of the tide ; The ruthless pike, intent on war, The silver eel, and mottled par.* Devolving from thy parent lake, A charming maze thy waters make, By bowers of birch, and groves of pine, And hedges flower'd with eglantine.