Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... present decline in the vale of years , the author has been a practical Angler , as well as a diligent collector of whatever fell in his way that was in any degree connected with his favourite amuse- ment . As a bookseller and publisher ...
... present decline in the vale of years , the author has been a practical Angler , as well as a diligent collector of whatever fell in his way that was in any degree connected with his favourite amuse- ment . As a bookseller and publisher ...
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... presents the ex- tremes of bulk and minuteness ; from the myriads of minute beings , which would be invisible to us without the assistance of the microscope , up to those stupendous masses , whales and cachalots . Until natural history ...
... presents the ex- tremes of bulk and minuteness ; from the myriads of minute beings , which would be invisible to us without the assistance of the microscope , up to those stupendous masses , whales and cachalots . Until natural history ...
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... presents mem- bers interesting to the Angler ; as the perch , the miller's - thumb , and the stickle - bat . The marine members of the order are very numerous , of which the mackerel , basse , and gurnard , form familiar instances . The ...
... presents mem- bers interesting to the Angler ; as the perch , the miller's - thumb , and the stickle - bat . The marine members of the order are very numerous , of which the mackerel , basse , and gurnard , form familiar instances . The ...
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... present a skeleton essentially osseous , the skeletons of the chondropterygii are cartilaginous only . The fishes of this series , however , are of great power and magnitude , and are divided into such as breathe by means of free gills ...
... present a skeleton essentially osseous , the skeletons of the chondropterygii are cartilaginous only . The fishes of this series , however , are of great power and magnitude , and are divided into such as breathe by means of free gills ...
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... , as it produced him forty pounds per year . His face bore the marks of former storms , but present fair weather ; its furrows had been worn into an habitual smile ; his iron grey locks hung about his 24 PISCATORIAL REMINISCENCES.
... , as it produced him forty pounds per year . His face bore the marks of former storms , but present fair weather ; its furrows had been worn into an habitual smile ; his iron grey locks hung about his 24 PISCATORIAL REMINISCENCES.
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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.