Prose halieutics, or, Ancient and modern fish tattle / by C. David Badham.

  • Charles David Badham
Date:
1854
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Credit: Prose halieutics, or, Ancient and modern fish tattle / by C. David Badham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROSE HALIEUTICS. CHAPTER I. ANCIENT AND MODERN FISHING. Elle etend ses filets, elle invente de nouveaux moyens de suc- ces, elle s’attache un plus grand nombre d’hommes; elle penetre dans les profondeurs des abimes, elle arracbe aux angles les plus secrets, elle poursuit jusqu’aux extremites du globe les objets de sa constante recbercbe.—Lacepede. T1ISH being more clistingnished for the size of their heads than for the amount of brains lodged in them,* and affording consequently an easier capture than either beasts or birds, fell early victims to the crafts and as- saults of their arch-enemy, man. Thus, even before the Babylonian captivity, as we read in Habakkuk, he ‘ took them with the angle, catched them with the net, and gathered them in his drag/f and the following ver- sion of a passage from another prophet, alludes to yet more subtle machinations, and a larger array of engines employed against them:— * The proportionate weight of brain to body in the shark is as one to two thousand five hundred; in the stupid thunny, only as one to three thousand seven hundred; and even in the compa- ratively well-endowed pike, but as one to one thousand three hundred. ayei TTOvrctv avcikiav (jjvaiv ovrctpatcri BiktvokXucttois 7repi(f)pabj]s avpp. IS J
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