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Página 75 - Why, as men do a-land ; the great ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale ; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping, till they've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells and all.
Página 97 - Every person who causes or knowingly permits to flow, or puts or knowingly permits to be put, into any waters containing salmon, or into any tributaries thereof, any liquid or solid matter to such an extent as to cause the waters to poison or kill fish...
Página 17 - XXIII. The use of any instrument or engine which serves only to cut or destroy nets is forbidden. The presence of any such engine on board a boat is also forbidden. The high contracting parties engage to take the necessary measures for preventing the embarkation of such engines on board fishing boats.
Página 22 - ... Captain Smith, who was sent to Shetland, in the year just mentioned, expressly to report on the Dutch fishery. Impressed with the vastness of the enterprise, the gallant captain was unable to conceal his astonishment at" his countrymen, who could look on "Shamefully passive, while Batavian fleets Defraud us of the glittering finny swarms That heave our firths, and crowd upon our shores.
Página 47 - ... unequal in the same ratio. The consumption of oxygen in equal times may be expressed by the number of respirations ; it is clear that, in the same individual, the quantity of nourishment required must vary with the force and number of the respirations.
Página 95 - No person shall take or attempt to take salmon with any net having a mesh of less dimensions than two inches in extension from knot to knot (the measurement to be made on each side of the square), or eight inches measured round each mesh when wet...
Página 15 - tis not accounted bad : The Sea-flounder is here, as common as the Shad ; The Sturgeon cut to keggs (too big to handle whole) Gives many a dainty bit out of his lusty...
Página 93 - shall mean a dam used or intended to be used partly for the purpose of catching or facilitating the catching of fish...
Página 97 - Waters ; but nothing herein contained shall prevent any Person from acquiring a legal Right in Cases where he would have acquired it if this Act had not passed, or exempt any Person from any...
Página 113 - Gco. 3, c. 31. canvas, hide, or other material, by which unsizeable and young fish may be taken or destroyed.