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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 246

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, there are few better, especiallysince his form has been so materially iin- GRAYLING, s. The umber, a fish. proved, and so much of his heaviness got ridof by the free use of foreign blood. Thereare not, however, ^<> man] dappled greys astlnic used to he, since the bays have beenbred with so… … Grayling are never found in streams thatrun from glaciers—at least near their source;and they are killed by cold or heat. I onceput some grayling from the Teme, in Septem-ber, with some trout, into a confined water,rising from a spring in the yard at Dawnton ;the grayling all died, hut the trout…

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