The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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ISBN13: 9780217947718
Paperback|9780217947718
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: evidently one of no small importance. The difficulties attending upon a complete knowledge of the subject are no doubt many and great, especially with regard to the marine species, arising chiefly from our want of information as to their feeding- grounds; still something has been done by such men as Mr Yarrell and others, and any new observations tending to further our acquaintance with the food of these useful animals cannot fail to be of some value. The peculiar delicacy of flavour which distinguishes some of our fresh-water fishes has been long known to depend upon the nature of their food, though it is only in a few instances that the exact kind has been ascertained. Mr Yarrell, for instance, in his valuable work upon British Fishes, informs us, upon the authority of the late Earl of Home, no ordinary observer, that the trout in Berwickshire differ very much, according to the locality in which they are found. The county of Berwick is divided into two districts, a hilly, mountainous region, and a flat, fertile plain. The two principal rivers rising in, and flowing through, the county, are the Blackadder and the Whitadder. This latter stream has its source at an elevation of 900 feet above the level of the sea, and flows over a very rocky and gravelly bed, whilst the former, the Blackadder, rises in deep mosses, and flows for one-half of its course through these mosses, and the other half through a rioh and highly-cultivated district. The trout of the rapid, clear, and sparkling Whitadder are fine silvery fish, beautiful to look upon, but very inferior in taste to those of the dark, mossy Blackadder, abounding as it does in a greater variety and quantity of food, and which are of a dark colour, almost black, with bright orange fins. Two other smaller streams, the Eden and the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217947718 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217947719 |
| Weight | 1.10 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $25.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 338 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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