A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling: Confirmed by Actual Experience, Interspersed with Several New and Recent Discoveries, the Whole Forming a Complete Museum for the Lovers of that ... RecreationB. Crosby & Company, 1804 - 185 страници |
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... weather is favoura- ble in the Autumn ; the fifth arch on the north- side is best to pitch the boat . When you go to angle at Chelsea , on a calm fair day , the wind being in a right comer , pitch your boat almost opposite to the church ...
... weather is favoura- ble in the Autumn ; the fifth arch on the north- side is best to pitch the boat . When you go to angle at Chelsea , on a calm fair day , the wind being in a right comer , pitch your boat almost opposite to the church ...
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... weather of the summer , they appear shew that a thunder storm is gathering : but the preparation which precedes a ... fair day , another fair day may be expected to succeed succeed it ; but if after such a day there PROGNOSTICS OF THE ...
... weather of the summer , they appear shew that a thunder storm is gathering : but the preparation which precedes a ... fair day , another fair day may be expected to succeed succeed it ; but if after such a day there PROGNOSTICS OF THE ...
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... weather . If the moon looks pale and dim , we are to ex- pect rain ; if red , it is a sign of wind ; and if white , and of her natural colour , and the sky clear , it will be fair weather , according to a poetical adage . If a new moon ...
... weather . If the moon looks pale and dim , we are to ex- pect rain ; if red , it is a sign of wind ; and if white , and of her natural colour , and the sky clear , it will be fair weather , according to a poetical adage . If a new moon ...
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... fair weather ; if the contrary , foul ; but there is no prognostic of rain more infallible , than a whistling or howl- ing noise of the wind . From nocturnal Meteors . When an Aurora borealis appears , after some warm days , it is ...
... fair weather ; if the contrary , foul ; but there is no prognostic of rain more infallible , than a whistling or howl- ing noise of the wind . From nocturnal Meteors . When an Aurora borealis appears , after some warm days , it is ...
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... fair , then foul , i.e. " Changes to a fair , clear sky , before it turns to rain . This the Rev. Mr. Clarke , who kept a register of the weather for thirty years , since put into Mr. Derham's hands , by his grand- son , the learned Dr ...
... fair , then foul , i.e. " Changes to a fair , clear sky , before it turns to rain . This the Rev. Mr. Clarke , who kept a register of the weather for thirty years , since put into Mr. Derham's hands , by his grand- son , the learned Dr ...
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