The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 110
eads, short necks, strong and brawny thighs,and a sight so accurate and piercing, as toenable them to view their prey from thegreatest heights in the air, upon which theydart with inconceivable swiftness and undevi-ating aim. Their stomachs are smaller thanthose of the granivorous kind, and their… … The carp is the queen of rivers ; a stately,a good and a very subtle fish; that was not atfirst bred, nor hath been long in England, butis now naturalised. It is said, they werebrought hither by one Mr. Mascal, a gentle-man that then lived at Plumsted in Sussex,a county that abounds more with fish…
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