The Treasures of the Deep: Or, A Descriptive Account of the Great Fisheries and Their Products. [With Illustrations.]1876 |
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Página 337 - Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing tow'rds the day.
Página 37 - the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before...
Página 337 - To adamant, by their petrific touch ; Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence Were overruled to carry on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock.
Página 21 - But the salmon has grown sulky, and must be made to spring to the plunging stone. There, suddenly, instinct with new passion, she shoots out of the foam, like a bar of silver bullion ; and, relapsing into the flood, is in another moment at the very head of the waterfall ! Give her the butt — give her the butt — or she is gone for ever with the thunder into ten fathom deep ! Now comes the trial of your tackle — and when was Phin ever known to fail at the edge of cliff or cataract ? Her snout...
Página 217 - In general, however, he goes more leisurely to work, and seems rather to suck in the bait than to bite at it. Much dexterity is required in the hand which holds the line at this moment ; for a bungler is apt to be too precipitate, and to jerk away the hook before it has got far enough down the shark's maw. Our greedy friend, indeed, is never disposed to relinquish what may once have passed his formidable batteries of teeth; but the hook, by a premature tug...
Página 254 - Be well content, and wish this cub away; Their wish they have: he (to direct his dam Unto the gap through which they thither came) Before her swims, and quits the hostile lake, A pris'ner there but for his mother's sake.
Página 253 - And left them prisoners on the rocky coast: One as a mountain vast, and with her came A cub, not much inferior to his dam. Here in a pool, among the rocks engag'd, They roar'd, like lions caught in toils, and rag'd. The man knew what...
Página 284 - ' We have now been enclosed in the ice seventeen days. The fire went out yesterday, and our master has been trying ever since to kindle it again without success. His wife died this morning. There is no relief!
Página 13 - He finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive ; His tail takes in his teeth : and, bending like a bow That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw ; Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand. That, bended end to end, and flirted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast ; so doth the salmon vault : And if at first he fail, a second somersault He instantly essays ; and from his nimble wing Still gerting, never leaves until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the...
Página 241 - The creatures are to be seen in the market-place undergoing this frightful mutilation ; the plastron and its integuments having been previously removed, and the animal thrown on its back, so as to display all the motions of the heart, viscera, and lungs. A broad knife, from twelve to eighteen inches in length, is first inserted at the left side, and the women, who are generally the operators, introduce one hand to scoop out the blood, which oozes slowly. The blade is next passed round, till the lower...