The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... mackerel , and herring fisheries . In 1875 there entered the port 167 vessels , with a total tonnage of 26,321 . The river affords abundant water - power for numerous cotton , oil , and other mills . Fécamp has also sugar refineries ...
... mackerel , and herring fisheries . In 1875 there entered the port 167 vessels , with a total tonnage of 26,321 . The river affords abundant water - power for numerous cotton , oil , and other mills . Fécamp has also sugar refineries ...
Page 207
... mackerel by Turner , but even of any scrap of the merest journeyman's handiwork produced by an artistic race , such as the first Japanese drawing for children in which a water - flag and king- fisher , or a spray of peach or almond ...
... mackerel by Turner , but even of any scrap of the merest journeyman's handiwork produced by an artistic race , such as the first Japanese drawing for children in which a water - flag and king- fisher , or a spray of peach or almond ...
Page 243
... mackerel , for instance , on the coasts at regular seasons of the year , could not have failed to attract attention ; and Swinden , in his History and Antiquities of Great Yarmouth , expresses his belief that the herring fishery began ...
... mackerel , for instance , on the coasts at regular seasons of the year , could not have failed to attract attention ; and Swinden , in his History and Antiquities of Great Yarmouth , expresses his belief that the herring fishery began ...
Page 244
... mackerel , and found abundant evidence of the same rule obtaining in that widely distinct fish . In the case of the mackerel , the spawning actually takes place at the surface ; but with the cod 244 FISHERIES.
... mackerel , and found abundant evidence of the same rule obtaining in that widely distinct fish . In the case of the mackerel , the spawning actually takes place at the surface ; but with the cod 244 FISHERIES.
Page 245
... mackerel among such as are caught by the drift - nets , may be reasonably included among the species whose spawn floats at or near the surface of the sea , and their ova cannot therefore be liable to the slightest injury by any method ...
... mackerel among such as are caught by the drift - nets , may be reasonably included among the species whose spawn floats at or near the surface of the sea , and their ova cannot therefore be liable to the slightest injury by any method ...
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