Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and SkyeLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 - 404 páginas |
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... shore at spawning time , and retire to their ocean home when that operation is over . Off the north - east of ... shores , nothing is more uncertain than their places of For some consecutive years we read of their frequenting certain ...
... shore at spawning time , and retire to their ocean home when that operation is over . Off the north - east of ... shores , nothing is more uncertain than their places of For some consecutive years we read of their frequenting certain ...
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... shores herrings have always exhibited great capriciousness . Goldsmith , whose business was certainly not to write natural history , and who , had he lived in these days of high pay for stirring novels , would have given us more tales ...
... shores herrings have always exhibited great capriciousness . Goldsmith , whose business was certainly not to write natural history , and who , had he lived in these days of high pay for stirring novels , would have given us more tales ...
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... shores in apparently inexhaustible numbers , consists of but one species ; and his opinion Our word herring is derived from the German " heer , " an army , to express their prodigious numbers . E is of great value , as he had ample ...
... shores in apparently inexhaustible numbers , consists of but one species ; and his opinion Our word herring is derived from the German " heer , " an army , to express their prodigious numbers . E is of great value , as he had ample ...
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... shore before she began to fill rapidly with water . A second attempt was more successful , and by dint of frequent and vigorous baling we contrived during the day's fishing to maintain a pretty equal balance between the quantity of ...
... shore before she began to fill rapidly with water . A second attempt was more successful , and by dint of frequent and vigorous baling we contrived during the day's fishing to maintain a pretty equal balance between the quantity of ...
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... numbers of flappers near the shores . Considerable tact is re- quired to get within shot of them ; but the gillies will put you up to certain dodges , and if you are lucky to get a right and left shot you may bag your three.
... numbers of flappers near the shores . Considerable tact is re- quired to get within shot of them ; but the gillies will put you up to certain dodges , and if you are lucky to get a right and left shot you may bag your three.
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