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Page 231 - On the contrary, those fish that live near the bottom of the water have a low standard of respiration, a high degree of muscular irritability, and less necessity for oxygen ; they sustain life long after they are taken out of the water, and their flesh remains good for several days.
Page 218 - Conger from the genus Anguilla, and made it the foundation of a subgenus under the name of Conger. "It is found in the seas of Europe, of Northern Asia, and in those of America, as far as the Antilles. It is very abundant on the coasts of England and France, in the Mediterranean Sea (where it was much sought after by the ancients), and in the Propontis, where it was not long ago in considerable estimation. Those of Sicyon were more especially esteemed.
Page 431 - Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind...
Page 215 - The fact of their being poisonous when eaten, is equally notorious ; and the cause equally inscrutable. My poor worthy friend, Dr Grainger, who resided for many years at St Christopher's, assured me, that of the fish caught, of the same kind, at one end of the island, some were the best and most wholesome in the world ; while others taken at a different end were always dangerous, and most commonly fatal.
Page 109 - It shall be lawful for the council of any borough to make such bye-laws as to them shall seem meet for the good rule and government of the borough, and for the prevention and suppression of...
Page 198 - This rude implement is held in the left hand, its edge which is dull, is raised a line above the index finger. Strips of hemp are...
Page 230 - Physiologists have shown that the quantity of respiration is inversely as the degree of muscular irritability. It may be considered as a law, that those fish which swim near the surface of the water, have a high standard of respiration, a low degree of muscular irritability, great necessity for oxygen — die almost immediately when taken out of water — and have flesh prone to rapid decomposition : mackerel, salmon, trout, and herrings are examples.
Page 226 - the essential elements are hindered from assuming a regular crystallised form. The incidental matters entering into the composition of a living body apparently furnish to the organic agent new powers— which powers the organic agent has been endowed with the ability to control and direct, in any manner that, from the exigencies of the living organised being, may become requisite.
Page 215 - Its length was that of our market sprat, four and a half inches. He adds that the "sprats are much esteemed in the West Indian Islands, but that a species called the yellowtailed sprat proves unfortunately poisonous at certain periods of the year among the Leeward and Virgin Islands." (Hist. of Barbados, ch. iv., p. 675-6.) Goldsmith, speaking on Dr Grainger's authority, — the author of the poem the ' Sugar Cane ' —
Page 219 - Muraenae was so great, that on the occasion of one of his triumphs, that great general presented six thousand of them to his friends. Licinius Crassus reared them so as to be obedient to his voice, and to come and receive their food from his hands ; while the celebrated orator Quintus Hortensius wept over the loss of those of which death had deprived him.