... 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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... kind , which live indifferently on land or water : as the castor , ot- ter , & c . Aristotle , and after him Mr. Willoughby , more accurately distinguish fishes into cetaceous , cartili- ganous , and spinous . The cetaceous kind ...
... kind , which live indifferently on land or water : as the castor , ot- ter , & c . Aristotle , and after him Mr. Willoughby , more accurately distinguish fishes into cetaceous , cartili- ganous , and spinous . The cetaceous kind ...
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... kind , that breathe with gills , are the most numerous ; and these he subdivides into such as are what we usually call flat fish ; and such as swim with their backs upright , or at right an- glès to the horizon . The plain or flat fish kind ...
... kind , that breathe with gills , are the most numerous ; and these he subdivides into such as are what we usually call flat fish ; and such as swim with their backs upright , or at right an- glès to the horizon . The plain or flat fish kind ...
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... kind ; or fluviatile , as those we call leather - mouthed fishes ; such as carp , tench , & c . Fishes which have prickly fins on their backs , are of two kinds . 1. Such as have two prickly fins on their backs ; and in these the ...
... kind ; or fluviatile , as those we call leather - mouthed fishes ; such as carp , tench , & c . Fishes which have prickly fins on their backs , are of two kinds . 1. Such as have two prickly fins on their backs ; and in these the ...
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... kind of places they are secured from the assaults of their nume- rous enemies , and enjoy a more safe and contented repose ; rest and quietness being as natural and helpful to their feeding as to other creatures . Some waters are more ...
... kind of places they are secured from the assaults of their nume- rous enemies , and enjoy a more safe and contented repose ; rest and quietness being as natural and helpful to their feeding as to other creatures . Some waters are more ...
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... kind . Hence too the Perch , a like voracious brood , Forbears to make this gen'rous race his food ; Tho ' on the common drove no bound he finds , But spreads unmeasur'd waste o'er all the kinds , Nor less the greedy Trout and gutless ...
... kind . Hence too the Perch , a like voracious brood , Forbears to make this gen'rous race his food ; Tho ' on the common drove no bound he finds , But spreads unmeasur'd waste o'er all the kinds , Nor less the greedy Trout and gutless ...
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