 | 1869 - 604 Seiten
...acre of good land carefully tilled produces a ton of corn, or two or three cwts. of meat, or cheese. The same area at the bottom of the sea on the best...weight of food to the persevering fisherman every week in the year. Five vessels belonging to the same owner, in a single 'night's fishing, brought in 17... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1773 - 674 Seiten
...acre of good land carefully tilled produces a ton of corn, or two or three cwts. of meat or cheese. The same area at the bottom of the sea on the best fishing grounds yield a greater weight of food to the persevering fisherman every week in the year. Five vessels belonging... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1864 - 622 Seiten
...of good land, carefully tilled, produces a ton of corn, or three hundred weight of meat or cheese ; the same area at the bottom of the sea, on the best fishing grounds, yields a greater weight of human food every week in the year. The city of London annually consumes 90,000 tons of beef, and an... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1866 - 574 Seiten
...acre of good land, carefully tilled, produces a ton of corn or two or three cwt. of meat or cheese, the same area at the bottom of the sea, on the best...yields a greater weight of food to the persevering fishermen every week in the year. The Reports on the Cattle Plague indicate the extent of its ravages... | |
 | 1866 - 566 Seiten
...three cwt. of meat or cheese. The same area at the bottom of the sea, in the best fishing-grounds, yields a greater weight of food to the persevering fisherman every week in the year. Five vessels belonging to the same owner, in a single night's fishing, brought in 17 tons'... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1867 - 248 Seiten
...mighty host, and what was the privilege of the minority has become the inheritance of the many. i. And see how numerous are the builders, constructing...the best fishing grounds, yields a greater weight of focd to the persevering fisherman every week of the year. Yet, how often do we see him returning clean... | |
 | Thomas Ashworth - 1868 - 128 Seiten
...carefully tilled, produces a ton of corn ; or two or three hundred pounds' weight of meat, or cheese ; the same area at the bottom of the sea, on the best fishing-grounds, yields a greater weight of food to the persevering fisherman every week in the year."... | |
 | William Peard - 1868 - 298 Seiten
...year, an acre of good land, carefully tilled, produces a ton of corn, 2 or 3 cwt. of meat or cheese. The same area at the bottom of the sea, on the best fishing-grounds, yields a greater weight of food to the persevering fisherman every week in the year.... | |
 | John Kirk - 1870 - 218 Seiten
...carefully tilled produces a ton of corn, or two hundredweight or three hundredweight of meat or cheese. The same area, at the bottom of the sea, on the best...weight of food to the persevering fisherman every week in the year. Five vessels belonging to the same owner, in a single night's fishing, brought in 17 tons... | |
 | George Nall - 1871 - 88 Seiten
...acre of good land, carefully tilled, produces a ton of corn, or two or three cwt. of meat or cheese. The same area at the bottom of the sea on the best...yields a greater weight of food to the persevering fishermen every week in the year. Five vessels belonging to the same owner, in a single night's fishing,... | |
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The most frequented fishing-grounds are much more prolific of food than the same extent of the richest land. Once in the year an acre of good land, carefully tilled, produces a ton of corn, or two or three cwt. 
