. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. aao A.\n:h'/(\LV I' tliL-sicvo-likc lldorinj; (if llio ' ( aiiu'ra (Kll;i inorti'' \v;is drawn williin a {k;w fi'i't of tlic sill lac I', a nuxcd niultitutli,' of large fish, « hi^lly of tlic SI omlur fiinily, all in \ iolcnt ayitation at what they saw and heard (for tlu' turn were now gaily singing at the ropes), daslied and splaslu'd about, 1 ill the wh(»le eiKJosiire vas covered witli f
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. aao A.\n:h'/(\LV I' tliL-sicvo-likc lldorinj; (if llio ' ( aiiu'ra (Kll;i inorti'' \v;is drawn williin a {k;w fi'i't of tlic sill lac I', a nuxcd niultitutli,' of large fish, « hi^lly of tlic SI omlur fiinily, all in \ iolcnt ayitation at what they saw and heard (for tlu' turn were now gaily singing at the ropes), daslied and splaslu'd about, 1 ill the wh(»le eiKJosiire vas covered witli foam. The work of slaughter soon coniincnced, and these |,'reat creatures, dcs]xit( hed hy lilows, were hauled without difficulty on board the l)arge,* 'l"he chamber being now empty, was let down again for new victims, while we followed the < argo just shipped to the land-phue ; thence, j)reccde(l by two drummers, off we svent in a ])rocessinn to the Mer( ato Rcale, where we found many great jyeless thunny (the ])roduce of a still earlier liaul) already piled up in bloody heaps on the flags, f Itesides these, there were alalongas, whose long ])ectorals had been draggled in the mire, with many other large and curi- ous lish. and the formidably armed heads of two or three sword-fish, fixed on end in the upi)er i)art of the woodwork of the same stalls, where their huge bodies were for sale below, cut up into bloodless white masses, like so many coarse fillets of veal ; while whole hampiTs of labridie attracted the least attentive eye by their lovely variegatetl and ever-vary- ing tints. ?SfimctiniL'S, wc ;ire lolil, wlicii a very <nliiss;il thuniiy is laiiulit, (Hic of tlic cri'w iiinunls lils li:u'k,:iinl will riile liiiii, as Arioii did tlic dniphiii, several limes ruuiid llic imiL-r enclosure, paltii)^ and taming liim Ijefore lie is stahlied like Ids conipaninns. t Tlie eves, lieinj; a ))eriinisiie of the rrew, are tnrn out the first thlnR, to m:il
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