| 1776 - 632 pages
...cafcade ; and it is hardly credible, but to thofe who have been eye-witnefles, that thefe fifh iliould be able to dart themfelves near fourteen feet perpendicular out of the water; and, allowing for the curoature, they leap at leaft twenty. I remained hours in obferving them. They do not always fucceed... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 510 pages
...cafcade; and it is hardly credible, but to thofe who have been eye-witnefles, that thefe -filh ihould be able to dart themfelves near fourteen feet perpendicular...obferving them ; they do not always fucceed at the firlt leap ; fometimes they bound almoft to the fummit, but the falling water dairies them down again... | |
| English literature - 1776 - 746 pages
...on the contraiy, who has been followed by able to dart themfelves near fourteen feet peiprndicular out of the water ; and allowing for the curvature, they leap at Icaft twenty. I remained liouis in obfcrving them. They do not always fuccecd at the Le Clerc, Prkleaux,... | |
| 716 pages
...cafcade ; and it is hardly credible, but to thofe who have been cyc-witncfles, that thefe fifh fhould be able to dart themfelves near fourteen feet perpendicular...water ; and allowing for the curvature, they leap at leafl twenty. They do not always fucceed at the iirlt lear> ; fometiraes they bound almoft to the.... | |
| William Wenman Seward - Ireland - 1795 - 386 pages
...but to thofe who have been eye-witneiles, that thefe filh mould be able to dart themfelves near 14 feet perpendicular out of the water ; and allowing for the curvature, they leap at lead twenty ; they do not always fucceed at the firil leap ; fometimes they bound almofl to the fummit,... | |
| William Wenman Seward - Ireland - 1797 - 542 pages
...but to thole who have been eye-witneffes, that thefe filh ihould be able to dart themfelves near 14 feet perpendicular out of the water ; and allowing for the curvature, they leap at leaft twenty ; they do not always fucceed at the firft leap ; fometimes they bound almoft to the fummit, but the... | |
| Fashion - 1807 - 472 pages
...salmon leaping up the above-mentioned cascade, darting themselves near fourteen fed lier' jiL-ndicularly out of the water; and allowing for the curvature, they leap at twenty. In 177.}, this fishery was rented for Goul. per annum, and at that time the fish was sold at... | |
| 1807 - 550 pages
...salmon leaping u]> the ahove-mentioned cascade, darting themselves near fourteen feet perpendicularly out of the water; and allowing for the curvature, they leap at least twenty. In t1~.\ this fishery was rented for floul. per annum, and at that time the fish was... | |
| William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1812 - 654 pages
...hundred pounds a year ; it is scarcely credible. that these fish should be able to dart themselves near fourteen feet perpendicular out of the water ; and, allowing for the curvature, they leap at least twenty. They do not bound from the surface, and it cannot be known from what depth they take... | |
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