A Naturalist's Rambles about HomeAppleton, 1884 - 485 páginas |
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Página 438 - courtship of this gaudy fish has been no easy matter. Hundreds of his kind, as bright as he, have, like him, striven by the hour to clear the field of every rival, and the clear waters are often turbid with sand and grass torn from the, bed of the stream as the older males chase each other from point to point, endeavoring by a successful snap to mutilate each other's fins.
Página 353 - The woods afforded us some hares and partridges, and we took large trout with the spear- In order to spear trout under the ice, holes being first cut, of two yards in circumference, cabins of about two feet in height, are built over them, of small branches of trees; and these are further covered with skins, so as wholly to exclude the light. The design and result of this contrivance is, to render it practicable to discern objects in the water, at a very considerable depth; for the reflection of light...
Página 230 - ... such a flock of cranes (the most part white) arose under us, with such a cry, redoubled by many echoes, as if an army of men had shouted all together.
Página 283 - There is here, also, a large and horrible serpent which is called a rattle-snake. It has a head like that of a dog, and can bite off a man's leg as clear as if it had been hewn down with an axe. There are horny joints in their tails, which make a noise like children's rattles, and when they see a man, they wind themselves in a circle, and shake their heads, which can be heard at the distance of a hundred yards, so that one may put himself on his guard.