The Harvest of the SeaA. Gardner, 1885 - 371페이지 |
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197 페이지 - The bright-ey'd perch with fins of Tyrian dye. The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
197 페이지 - O glide, fair stream! for ever so, Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow As thy deep waters now are flowing. Vain thought! - Yet be as now thou art, That in thy waters may be seen The image of a poet's heart, How bright, how solemn, how serene!
261 페이지 - By and by the shell is broken, and the contents are placed in a vessel of water, warmed by the heat of the sun only ; the eggs speedily burst, and in a short time the young fish are able to be transported to a lake or river of ordinary temperature, where they are of course left to grow to maturity without being further noticed than to have a little food thrown to them.
39 페이지 - ... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth...
144 페이지 - Carnoustie—and immediately on being immersed in it, the fish appeared distressed, the fins standing stiff out, the parr marks becoming a brilliant ultramarine colour, and the belly and sides of a bright orange. The water was often renewed, but they all died, the last that died living nearly five hours. After being an hour in the salt water, they appeared very weak and unable to rise from the bottom of the vessel which contained them, the body of the fish swelling to a considerable extent. This...
96 페이지 - ... great while before he would be able to assemble such an army again; and that their supplies of provisions could not be so great but before half the winter was over, they would be in the same straits as they were now ; and that in the...
44 페이지 - ... adding however that the estimate must for the present be regarded as only approximative. It was on this and other evidence that we based our conclusion that the eggs of the herring " are hatched in at most from two to three weeks after deposition.
144 페이지 - Salmon,' also bears his testimony on this part of the Salmon question : — ' Until the parr takes on the smolt scales, it shows no inclination to leave the fresh water. It cannot live in salt water. This fact was put to the test at the ponds, by placing some parrs into salt water — the water being brought fresh from the sea at Carnoustie — and immediately on being immersed in it, the fish appeared distressed, the...
171 페이지 - Riparian ownership by itself confers no title to salmon fishings — not even to rod-fishing ; and it sometimes happens that one person possesses the land on both sides of a river and the subjacent soil, whilst another has the right to the salmon fishings. A charter, with an express grant of salmon fishings, is required to constitute a valid right, or a charter, with a general grant of fishings, followed by forty years' prescription of salmon fishings, or a Barony title, fortified by a similar prescription.
263 페이지 - ... in his treatise on fishes. The Journal of Hanover also had papers on this art, and an account of Jacobi's proceedings was likewise enrolled in the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Berlin. The discovery of Jacobi was the simple result of a keen observation of the natural action of the breeding-salmon. Observing that the process of impregnation was entirely an external act, he saw at once that this could be easily imitated by careful manipulation ; so that by conducting artificial hatching on a...