. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. to the southern provinces. The seasabound with fish of various descriptions; the Caspian affords sturgeon and deliciouscarp. The most common river fish is the barbel. The same sorts of wild and tamefowl are common in Persia and in Europe, with the exception of the turkey, whosenature does not seem to be congenial to this climate. Pigeons are numerou
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. to the southern provinces. The seasabound with fish of various descriptions; the Caspian affords sturgeon and deliciouscarp. The most common river fish is the barbel. The same sorts of wild and tamefowl are common in Persia and in Europe, with the exception of the turkey, whosenature does not seem to be congenial to this climate. Pigeons are numerous, and par- j08 fridges are large and excellent. The bul-bul, or Oriental nightingale, enlivens the spring with his varied Persians have been long accustomed to tame beastsof prey and even to hunt with lions, tigers, leopards,panthers, and ounces. Ihr Persians hunt the quail in a curious manner, [fig. 108.) They stick two poles in their girdle, upon which they place either J. • rf~ y/jj I luir outer coat, or a pair of trowscrs, and these at a distance are r*^ intended to look like the horns of an animal; they then with n hand-net prowl about the fields, and life <juail, seeing a form more like a beast than a man, permits it to.
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