The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 9. köideHenry G. Allen Company, 1890 |
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Page 39
... fishery is especially , important , -the dried fish being exported to Spain and France , the swim - bladders made into gelatine , and the ovaries prepared for the anchovy fisher of the Medi- FARO , a city and seaport of Portugal , chief ...
... fishery is especially , important , -the dried fish being exported to Spain and France , the swim - bladders made into gelatine , and the ovaries prepared for the anchovy fisher of the Medi- FARO , a city and seaport of Portugal , chief ...
Page 216
... fishery , employ a great many hands , and render this department an excellent nursery of seamen for the French navy . Finistère is rich in minerals : iron , coal , lead , bismuth , and zinc mines are worked ; and there are quarries of ...
... fishery , employ a great many hands , and render this department an excellent nursery of seamen for the French navy . Finistère is rich in minerals : iron , coal , lead , bismuth , and zinc mines are worked ; and there are quarries of ...
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... fishery is of some importance , while the rivers yield considerable quantities of salmon , and the lakes white - fish ( Coregonus albus ) . The export of fish in 1876 was valued at over £ 100,000 . Granite , marble , felspar , and ...
... fishery is of some importance , while the rivers yield considerable quantities of salmon , and the lakes white - fish ( Coregonus albus ) . The export of fish in 1876 was valued at over £ 100,000 . Granite , marble , felspar , and ...
Page 243
... fishery ; whilst in the case of the deep - sea trawling or cod fishery , they learn to become as good sailors as they are fishermen , for they have often to remain at sea in decked vessels for weeks at a time in all kinds of weather ...
... fishery ; whilst in the case of the deep - sea trawling or cod fishery , they learn to become as good sailors as they are fishermen , for they have often to remain at sea in decked vessels for weeks at a time in all kinds of weather ...
Page 244
... fishery during summer at the distance from land at which it is generally worked , and where some of the most productive grounds are situated . Its special importance in this fishery will be further noticed when we speak of the general ...
... fishery during summer at the distance from land at which it is generally worked , and where some of the most productive grounds are situated . Its special importance in this fishery will be further noticed when we speak of the general ...
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