Fishing in American WatersHarper & Brothers, 1873 - 484 Seiten |
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Seite 338 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
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Seite 337 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold; that they are at the antipodes,- and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South.
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Seite 473 - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is n correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Seite 43 - Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, a wretch, to pull thee OUT, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the raskall IN!
Seite 337 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles.
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Seite 472 - ... of the poor, for the use of the poor of the town in which conviction is had, and the remainder to the prosecutor. On the non-payment of the penalty the...