... A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling, Confirmed by Actual Experience: Interspersed with Several New and Recent Discoveries; the Whole Forming a Complete Museum for the Lovers of that Pleasing and Rational RecreationB. Crosby and Company, 1802 - 185 Seiten |
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Seite 125
... clouds appear , they then grow weak for want of the sun , and fall upon the waters in great quanti- ties . The wings are made from a feather out of a jay's wing , the body of an ostrich's feather , which is preferable to the plover's ...
... clouds appear , they then grow weak for want of the sun , and fall upon the waters in great quanti- ties . The wings are made from a feather out of a jay's wing , the body of an ostrich's feather , which is preferable to the plover's ...
Seite 138
... clouds . High to their fount , this day , amid the hills And woodlands warbling round , trace up the brooks ; Then ... cloud , he desperate takes the death 1 With sullen plunge : at once he darts along , With 138 A CONCISE TREATISE ON.
... clouds . High to their fount , this day , amid the hills And woodlands warbling round , trace up the brooks ; Then ... cloud , he desperate takes the death 1 With sullen plunge : at once he darts along , With 138 A CONCISE TREATISE ON.
Seite 158
... Clouds . It is a very considerable symptom of fair wea- ther , when the clouds decay , and dissolve them- selve into air ; but it is otherwise when they are collected out of it . In nubem cogiter aer . VIRGIL . Against heavy rain , every ...
... Clouds . It is a very considerable symptom of fair wea- ther , when the clouds decay , and dissolve them- selve into air ; but it is otherwise when they are collected out of it . In nubem cogiter aer . VIRGIL . Against heavy rain , every ...
Seite 159
... clouds are forined like fleeces , deep , and dense toward the middle , and very white at the edges , with the sky very bright and blue about them , they are of a frosty coldness , and will soon fall either in hail , snow , or in hasty ...
... clouds are forined like fleeces , deep , and dense toward the middle , and very white at the edges , with the sky very bright and blue about them , they are of a frosty coldness , and will soon fall either in hail , snow , or in hasty ...
Seite 160
... clouds , extends towards the ze- nith in an evening , the wind will be high from the west or south - west , attended with rain , sometimes with a flood : before the late dreadful hurricane of 1780 , at Barbadoes and the other West ...
... clouds , extends towards the ze- nith in an evening , the wind will be high from the west or south - west , attended with rain , sometimes with a flood : before the late dreadful hurricane of 1780 , at Barbadoes and the other West ...
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