Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... mouth of the river . On looking more intently , they discovered that the surface , as far as the organs of vision could extend , was literally alive with an immense shoal of porpoises , which were rolling forward with the most rapacious ...
... mouth of the river . On looking more intently , they discovered that the surface , as far as the organs of vision could extend , was literally alive with an immense shoal of porpoises , which were rolling forward with the most rapacious ...
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... of his companion in its mouth . Angler . Trout are taken in a river in Cardiganshire , the back bones of which are crooked . Phil . Trans . Art . xxiii . 1767 . Salmon Trout . - This species has a phosphoric property 50 ANECDOTES OF FISHES.
... of his companion in its mouth . Angler . Trout are taken in a river in Cardiganshire , the back bones of which are crooked . Phil . Trans . Art . xxiii . 1767 . Salmon Trout . - This species has a phosphoric property 50 ANECDOTES OF FISHES.
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... mouth , where there are no nerves , and cold - blooded ani- mals in general are less sensitive than those of warm - blooded animals ; and a proof that the sufferings of a hooked fish cannot be great , is found in the circumstance , that ...
... mouth , where there are no nerves , and cold - blooded ani- mals in general are less sensitive than those of warm - blooded animals ; and a proof that the sufferings of a hooked fish cannot be great , is found in the circumstance , that ...
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... mouth waters after every wasp , as his fins flutter after every fly for , if it be but a fly , or the produce of an insect , out of a generous curiosity , he is ready to entertain it , smooth and swift streams enamour him , but not a ...
... mouth waters after every wasp , as his fins flutter after every fly for , if it be but a fly , or the produce of an insect , out of a generous curiosity , he is ready to entertain it , smooth and swift streams enamour him , but not a ...
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... mouth of the rivulet . They reach a considerable size ; they are a night- feeding fish , and feed near the bottom . William Jardine . THE PARR . Among the British salmonidæ , there is no fish the habits of which are so regular , or the ...
... mouth of the rivulet . They reach a considerable size ; they are a night- feeding fish , and feed near the bottom . William Jardine . THE PARR . Among the British salmonidæ , there is no fish the habits of which are so regular , or the ...
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2nd edit 3rd edit 4th edit Angler in Ireland animals appears Art of Angling bait barbel begynneth boat boke bones bottom bream carp catch caught chub colour dace Dagenham delight Editor eels fastened feet long fins Fish and Fish Fish Ponds fisher fishermen five flies fly-fishing four fresh water fysshyng Gent gentle gentleman grayling gudgeon Hawking Hist hook hundred Hunting huntynge Ichthyophagi Imprynted at London inches in length inches long inhabitants Ireland John Hawkins lake Lond mackerel Method of Fishing minnow mouth native natural Pallas Pennant perch pike Piscatory pounds weight quantity red worm resembles river River Thames roach salmon salt sea fish season shad small fish smelt spawn species Sporting Mag stickleback streams sturgeon surface swimming tackle tail taken tench Thames Treatise trolling trout Walton weighed wood-cut Wynkyn de Worde young
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Page 8 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Page 19 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 20 - Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, weeles, baites, angling, or otherwise, and yields all out as much pleasure to some men as dogs or hawkes. When they draw the fish upon the banke, saith Nic.
Page 44 - Some years since a herdsman, on a very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an Eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued : when the...
Page 182 - Indians, gain the banks, and, overcome by fatigue, and benumbed by the shocks, stretch themselves at their length on the ground. There could not, says Humboldt, be a finer subject for the painter : groups of Indians surrounding the bason; the horses with their hair on end, and terror and agony in their eyes ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great aquatic serpents, swimming on the surface of the water in pursuit of their enemy.