The natural history of British fishes: vol. 1 with memoir of Rondelet, vol. 2 with memoir of baron von Humboldt, Band 1 |
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abdomen abundant anal fin animals appear bait Ballan Wrasse beautiful belonging Blenny blue body Bream British Fauna British shores brown captured caudal fin caught colour common Cornwall Couch Cuvier deep Devonshire distinguished dorsal fin esteemed feet fish fishermen flavour flesh four frequently fresh fresh-water genus gill-covers gills Goby Grey Mullet Gurnard habits head Ichthyologist inches in length inhabitants Ireland known Lacépède lateral line Mackerel Mediterranean membrane Montpellier mouth Naturalist nearly observed opercle Orkney Osseous Fishes Parnell pectoral fins Pennant Perch ponds procured rare reddish remarks Risso Rondelet Salmon scales scarcely Scotland Sea-bream seas seen shoals sides silvery sometimes spawn species specimen spines spinous rays spot Stewart Stickleback striking supplied tail taken teeth tints tion upper Valenciennes ventral fins vessel viviparous vomer vulgaris Wrasse Yarrell Yarrell's yellow young
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Seite 35 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
Seite 154 - ... spines, which on these occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before either would give way ; and when one does submit, imagination can hardly conceive the vindictive fury of the conqueror...
Seite 78 - I have counted above 10,000,000), so subtile (they are scarcely visible to the naked eye, and often resemble thin smoke), so light (raised, perhaps, by evaporation into the atmosphere), and are dispersed in so many ways (by the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, adhesion, &c.), that it is difficult to conceive a place from which they can be excluded.
Seite 67 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Seite 183 - At Brighton, in June, the same year, the shoal of mackerel was so great, that one of the boats had the meshes of her nets so completely occupied by them, that it was impossible to drag them in. The fish and nets, therefore...
Seite 301 - Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed 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 watery plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Seite 199 - Pilot swam close to the snout, or near one of the pectoral fins of the animal. Sometimes he darted rapidly forwards or sidewards as if looking for something, and constantly went back again to the Shark. When we threw overboard a piece of bacon fastened on a great hook, the Shark was about twenty paces from the ship. With the quickness of lightning the Pilot came up, smelt at the dainty, and instantly swam back again to the Shark, swimming many times round his snout and splashing, as if to give him...
Seite 154 - When a few are first turned in, they swim about in a shoal, apparently exploring their new habitation. Suddenly one will take possession of a particular corner of the tub, or, as it will sometimes happen, of the bottom, and will instantly commence an attack...
Seite 183 - Billingsgate for forty guineas per hundred, — seven shillings each, reckoning six score to a hundred ; the highest price ever known at that market. The next boat-load produced but thirteen guineas per hundred. Mackerel were so plentiful at Dover in 1808, that they were sold sixty for a shilling. At Brighton, in June of the same year, the shoal of Mackerel was so great, that one of the boats...
Seite 198 - In this manner they continued tormenting and wounding him for many hours, until we lost sight of him ; and I have no doubt they, in the end, completed his destruction.