The sea-shore / by W.S. Furneau.

  • William Samuel Furneaux
Date:
1911
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Credit: The sea-shore / by W.S. Furneau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when the tid.e is out, desire to know something of the creatures that live entirely beyond low-water mark, wliere the water is generally too deep for work with a hand net. To such we recom- mend a small dredge tliat may be lowered from a boat and then di’awn along the bottom. A good form of dredge is shown in fig. 19, and a little skill and ingenuity will enable anyone to con- struct one with the help of our illustration ; but, seeing that the best work is to be done on rough bottoms, it is absolutely necessary that both frame and net should bo made of the stoutest materials that can be conveniently employed. Fici. 20.—Tiik CiiAu-roT Tliose who haA’G over accompanied a fisherman while taking a pull round to examine the contents of his crab or lobster pots will probably have noticed what strange creatures, in addition to the edible crabs and lobsters, sometimes find their way into the trap. These ci'eatures are often of great interest to a young naturalist, and it will repay him to take an occasional trip with a fisherman in order to obtain them; or, still better, to have a crab-pot of his own. The writer has obtained many good specimens by means of an inexpensive trap, on the same principle as the ordinary crab-pot, made from an old metal bird-cage of rather small size. The bottom was removed, and a very shallow bag of thick canvas fixed in its place; and some of the wires were cut, and bent inwards so as to
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