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Image from page 300 of “The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe” (1876) – Valley Of Desolation

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Title: The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co.
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e account iirstappeared in the Lfiiuhm Muguzine, but no man, so far as I am aware, has been ableto discover the original of the talc, and it is generally understood that the whole wasthe work of George Steevens, an unscrupulous antiquary, who was never happier thanwhen entrapping his contemporaries in the meshes of some ingenious hoax. However,the story was too attractive not to seize the imagination. Erasmus Darwin embalmed itin his stately verses, poets of a less scientific type followed his example, while paintereinnumerable vied with each other in picturing the scene of so much desolation. In reality INDOMAI.AYSIA : JAVA. «!),» tlie life is a spurge (Aiiliarln fo.rictiriu), which, when pierced, exndcs a milky juiuc,containing, as is usually the case with such plants, an a<ri<l poison. But, so far finniheing as pestilent as described, the tree has liecii eultivatetl in our Iwtanic gardens,and is known to grow in the Java wcmkIs along with dthcr vegetation, which it does not

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TICK VIAS TREE (iliiKarit toiiearia) OF JAVA. injure, and on its branches birds and lizards have often been seen to perch. It is,however, f:iir tn say that the soil on which it grows is often cavernous, and iii thevalley of death exhales carbonic acid and sulphurous vapoui-s, which are fatal to animallife, and that from the same causes operating in the streams, many of the latter aredestitute of lishes. The juice is also used as an arrow poison, and often causes disagreealileirritation, or worse, to those who climb the tree, or wear a garment made of the innerbark. This irritating character is, however, common to the juice of the order to which 270 THE COUNTRIES OF THE WOKT.D. flie upas belongs. The tree is not eonfineJ to Java, for a traveller describes it astlourisliing in a valley near the town of Briini, iu Borneo, surrounded by hills coveredwith dense vegetation. It is, however, curious, as proving that the ancient tales aboutit are based on some foundation of fact, that the nati

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Image from page 508 of “American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture” (1888) – The Great Fish River Museum

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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes — North America
Publisher: New York, Standard book company
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h, or Silver Salmon, Oncorhynclius kisuich, writes Jordan, isalmost everywhere known by the name of Silver Salmon. It has alsoa series of local names. In Kamtchatka it is still known by the nameKisutch, in use in Pennants time, a hundred years ago. The name Bielaya Ryba, or A\hite-fish, is also ascribed to it. On FrazerRiver it is known by the INIusquaw name of Coho; at Seattle, by theNisciually name of Skowitz ; about Cape Flattery by the Makah nameof Hoopid ; on the Columbia it is called Silver Salmon or ^^hiteSalmon, and southward the same names prevail. It reaches a weight oftwenty pounds, the usual range being from seven to ten. The SilverSalmon enters all the rivers from Sacramento to Behring Island and Kamt-chatka. In the fall it is abundant in probably all the rivers. Few ornone, however, are seen in the spring. They are often taken with seinesin Puget Sound at all seasons. Like the other fall-running Salmon, theyseldom ascend the rivers to any great distance. ypsn^fi^^-^^^Sf.

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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes — North America
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ght to add that I tasted the dish again whencold next morning at breakfast, and that it had lost nothing of its relish,and I do not think that many who sat down before it without prejudicewould come to any other than such a favorable conclusion. Perhaps\inegar instead of lemon might cheapen the dish, but as the recipe isgiven, it may be classed as economical. The common Brook Sucker, Catostonius Coiiuiicrsoiii. or the • AVhiteSucker, is the most familiar and generally abundant of the group. It CARP, DACE AND MINNOW. 435 inhabits all bodies of water, large and small, from New England to Colo-rado. In the great lakes it reaches a length of two feet or more. In smallbrooks it is mature at eight or ten inches. It varies much in size, colorand form in the different streams. It bites freely, ami is one of the fisheswith which the unambitious brook angler is well contented. When takenout of clear water, ])roperly cared for and well washed, it is an excellentpan-fish, like most of its kind.

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THE BROOK SUCKER—CATOSTOMlS COMMERSOXI. All the lakes and rivers of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope,says Jordan, are inhabited by species of this genus, or of the alliedgenera Chasmistes and Pantostcus. In Utah Lake, said to be the greatestSucker-pond in the world, are found Caiostoimis fcciiinitis and ardcns,Chasmistes liorus and PantostcusplatyrliyncJius, all in abundance. In LakeTahoe Catostoinus tahoensis; in the Sacramento C. occidcntalis; in theColumbia C. macrochilus; in Klamath Lake Chasmistes luxatus and CJi.hrevirostiis, abound, while in the great lakes and all waters thence toAlaska and Arctic Ocean C. loiigirostris is an important food-fish. The Stone-roller, Hog Sucker, Stone Toter or Hammer-head Sucker, Catostomus nigricans, abounds in most waters from the greatlakes southward. The Stone-roller is extremely abundant in every run-ning stream in the North and West, where its singular, almost comical formis familiar to every school-boy. It delights in rapids and

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Image from page 224 of “A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of – The Great Fish River Museum

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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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n thousand, four thousand of whomwere burnt to death. ?^ Portuguese Relation. 1541.] DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 165 nessee. This river in that place was half a league over, so that aman could not be distinguished from one side to the other ;it was very deep and very rapid, and being always full of thfrnS-^trees and timber that was carried down by the force of thestream, the water was thick and very muddy. It abounded withfish, most of which differed much from those that are taken in therivers of Spain. Boats were necessary to cross, and it took a monthto build them. A great cacique, Aquixo, was lord of the country on the other sideof the Mississippi, and in a day or two he approached to meet yj^j^ ^f ^j^^the strangers. He came with an imposing array of two hun- <^<=i<i^®-dred canoes, filled with armed men, a part of whom stood up to pro-tect the rowers with feathered shields, but all with their bodies andfaces painted, their heads adorned with plumes of many colors. The

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cacique and other chiefs were sheltered under awnings. The canoes were most neatly made and very large, and, with their pavilions, feathers, shields, and standards, looked like a fleet of galleys. They brought presents of fish and fruit and bread, and came, they said, to welcome and do homage to the strangers. But the strangers chose to beheve that they had a hostile purpose ; when they hesitated to land the Span- Fleet f the Cacique. 166 SPANISH DISCOVERIES AND EXPLORATIONS. [Chap. VII. iards killed five or six of them for such a want of confidence, andothers who attempted to make a landing they fell upon as comingwith evil intent. When the boats were finished the army crossed without opposition.For a few days they kept along the west bank of the river, makingtheir way with difficulty through the forest and wet bottom lands, andharassed by constant attacks from the Indians. But they reached, erelong, a higher and dryer country, where they remained for more thana month, and where they

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Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes — North America
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is kept at the clubhouse of the daily catch, by whom caught, where taken, on what station,the number of fish, weight, and date. Some members of the CuttyhunkClub also belong to the West Island Club, which controls only five acresof land. The West Island Club is limited to thirty members, witli an ad-mission fee of ,000. Professor Leith Adams has drawn a vivid pen-i)icture of Indian Bass-fish-ing in New Brunswick. The Indians (on the St. Johns River) pursue them at spawningtime. The scene on a beautiful summer afternoon is extremely ex-citing. There a i^w canoes containing remnants of the Melicitatribe may be seen dropping quietly down the river, each with an Indianin the prow, spear in hand, and another at the stern paddling gently; thena sudden splash close by calls for his utmost exertions, and like an arrowthe birch-bark skiff is shot towards the spot, when the man in front, rest-ing on his knees, with much force and dexterity sends his three-prongedharpoon straight on the fish.

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THE WHITE BASS. ROCCUS CHRTSOPS. THE WHITE BASS AND THE YELLOW BASS. Subtle. Has he bit? Has he bit? Face. And swallowed too, my Subtle. I have given him line, and now he pkys i faith. Subtle. And shall we twitch him ? Face. Through both the gills. Ben. Jonson, The Alche7nist, 1611, Act. ii, ?c. i. T^HE White Bass, or Striped Lake Bass, Roccus chrysops, is often con-founded with the Striped Bass, which it closely resembles. It mayeasily be distinguished by the presence of thirteen, instead of eleven, softrays in the anal fin, as well as by the greater size of its scales, of whichthere are about fifty-five rows, instead of sixty or more. It is most abundant in the Great Lake region, although it has a widedistribution in the Ohio and upper tributaries of the Mississippi, and isfound in many streams farther south. It frequents chiefly the lakes andponds and the deeper parts of the rivers. It feeds upon minnows and thelike, usually taking the hook readily, and is considered gamy by theano

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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes — North America
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TUE ELKUlEAN SUAD. It is very closely allied to the European species, but is a much finer fish.The English care little for their shad, though in France the same speciesis highly esteemed. The following account of our Shad is from the pen of Col. MarshallMacDonald, who has made it a subject of special study for many years : The Shad is found along the whole Atlantic coast of the United States,and its capture constitutes one of the most important fisheries in all thestreams draining into the Atlantic between the Gulf of St. Lawrence andthe St. Johns River, Florida. It is but rarely seen on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, but occurs inthe Gulf of St. Lawrence, the various rivers of which it ascends as farnorth as the Miramichi, which seems to be its limit in that direction, nonehaving been seen in the Bay of Chaleur. Throughout its entire range the Shad is found in sufficient quantities togive rise to fisheries of great commercial value. There is no run of Shadin any of the rivers dra

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