. Natural history, with anecdotes [microform] : illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., etc. Natural history; Zoology; Sciences naturelles; Zoologie. Plate Nc 360 NATURAL HISTORY IN ANECDOTE. this be trae, the pike was two hundred and fifty-seven years old at the time of its capture, when it is said to have weighed three hundred and fifty pounds. The Herring. Probably no living^ thing of its size is equal to the herring in its value to man. It visits the northern coasts of England and Scotland in vast shoals, of several mil
. Natural history, with anecdotes [microform] : illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., etc. Natural history; Zoology; Sciences naturelles; Zoologie. Plate Nc 360 NATURAL HISTORY IN ANECDOTE. this be trae, the pike was two hundred and fifty-seven years old at the time of its capture, when it is said to have weighed three hundred and fifty pounds. The Herring. Probably no living^ thing of its size is equal to the herring in its value to man. It visits the northern coasts of England and Scotland in vast shoals, of several miles in extent, in the autumn of the year, heralded by sea gulls and followed by dog-fish, both of whom take toll as it proceeds. The an- nual produce of these little fish is beyond all calculation. The Scotch fisheries are credited with the capture of over four hun- dred millions a year, while those of Norway can scarcely be much less successful. The Swedish fisheries are said to cap- ture nearly double that number, to which must be added those taken by the English, Irish, Dutch, French, and German fish- eries before the grand total can be reached. The enormous number of hands employed in these various fisheries, to say nothing of the capital invested in them, marks them out as one of the most important of European enterprises. The Flying The Flying fish is about the size of a herring, ^â "i"^- and is furnished with strong pectoral fins, almost the length of its body, by which it is able to spring out of the water and sustain itself for a time in the air. It has apparently no power of guiding itself, or of varying its altitude while in the lighter element, both the height and the course of its flight being determined by the direction and the force of its spring. Its ordinary flight is about three feet above the surface of the water, and of no very great distance or duration, but it has been known to fly as high as fourteen or fifteen feet, and even higher, and a dista
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