The Natural History of Fishes, Particularly Their Structure and Economical UsesW.H. Lizars, ... S. Highley, ... London; and W. Curry, jun. and Company Dublin., 1840 - 202 pàgines |
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The Natural History of Fishes, Particularly Their Structure and Economical Uses John Stevenson Bushnan Visualització completa - 1840 |
The Natural History of Fishes, Particularly Their Structure and Economical Uses John Stevenson Bushnan Visualització completa - 1840 |
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Pàgina 58 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Pàgina 129 - Sucking-fish in the catching of others, somewhat in the same manner as hawks are employed by a falconer in seizing birds. They kept them for the purpose, and had them regularly fed. The owner, on a calm morning, would carry one of them out to sea, secured to his canoe by a small but strong line, many fathoms in length ; and the moment the creature saw a fish in the water, though at a great distance, it would dart away with the swiftness of an arrow, and soon fasten upon it. The Indian, in the mean...
Pàgina 128 - ... Let fly the sheets, and hoist the top-mast yard. The master bids them give her all the sails, To court the winds, and catch the coming gales. But, though the canvas bellies with the blast, And boisterous winds bend down the cracking mast, The bark stands firmly rooted in the sea, And will, unmov'd, nor winds nor waves obey ; Still, as when calms have flatted all the plain, And infant waves scarce wrinkle on the main.
Pàgina 128 - The seamen run confused, no labour spared, Let fly the sheets, and hoist the topmast yard. The master bids them give her all the sails, To court the winds, and catch the coming gales. But, though the...
Pàgina 126 - ... and powerfull : and yet there is one little sillie fish, named echeneis, that checketh, scorneth, and arresteth them all. Let the winds blow as much as they will, rage the storms and tempests what they can, yet this little fish...
Pàgina 216 - ... delighted, or els commeth to wonder at it as doe our fresh water fish, the other commeth also in the night, but chiefly in the day, being forced by the Cod that would devoure him, and therefore for feare comming so neere the shore, is driven drie by the surge of the Sea on the pibble and sands. Of these being as good as a Smelt you may take up with a shove-net as plentifully as you do Wheate in a shovell, sufficient in three or foure houres for a whole Citie.
Pàgina 208 - ... success, that the shore was covered, the whole length of the net with the fish they caught, though the net was in a bad condition. I reckoned part of them, and judged that they might in all be upwards of 6000, the least of them as large as a fine carp. There you might see pilchards, rock-fish, mullets, or gull-fish, of different sorts ; molebats, with other fishes very little known.