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" The period allowed to the merchant to fish, the banks is six weeks, or two months at the utmost ; but there are several interruptions, which prevent the fishing days from exceeding more than about thirty. If it happens to be a very bad season, and many... "
Natural history. Mollusca - Page 240
by Philip Henry Gosse - 1854
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An Account of the Island of Ceylon: Containing Its History, Geography ...

Robert Percival - Ethnology - 1803 - 504 pages
...pearl gets so large and so disagreeable to the fish, that it vomits and throws it out of the shell. The fishing season commences in February, and ends...days from exceeding more than about thirty. If it happens to be a very bad season, and many stormy days intervene touring the .period allotted^ the purchaser...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1803 - 892 pages
...pearl gets sa large and so disagreeable to the fish, that it vomits and throws it out of the shell. The fishing season commences in February, and ends...April. The period allowed to the merchant to fish the bank is six weeks, or two months at the utmost; but there are several inteiTuptions, which prevent...
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Annual Register, Volume 44

Edmund Burke - History - 1803 - 1298 pages
...pearl gets so large and so disagreeable to the fish, that it vomits and throws it out of the shell. The fishing season commences in February, and ends...April. The period allowed to the merchant to fish the bank is six weeks, or' two months at the utmost; but there are several interruptions, which prevent...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 44

History - 1803 - 866 pages
...about thbeginning of April. The peri; ' . allowed to the merchant to ШЬ the bank is six weeks, or twn months at the utmost; but there are several interruptions, which prevent the fishing days from exo-.-iing more than about thirty. If i; happens to be a very bad seasoc, and many stormy days intervcw,...
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The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History ..., Volume 65

Great Britain - 1803 - 926 pages
...and fo difagrceablc to the fifh, that it vomits and throw: it out of the flicll. The filhing feafon commences in February, and ends about the beginning of April. The period allowed to the mtrchant to filh the bank- is fix weeks, or two months at the utmolt : but there are feveral interruptions,...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 2

Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...pearl gets so large and so disagreeable to the fish, that it vomits and throws it out of the shell. The fishing season commences in February, and ends...beginning of April. The period allowed to the merchant te fish the bank is six weeks, or two months at the utmost ; but there are several interruptions, which...
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Encyclopędia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences ..., Volume 5

Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 820 pages
...becomes fo large and inconvenient to the fid), that it throws it out of the (hell. The fifhing feafon commences in February, and ends about the beginning of April. The period allowed to the merchant to fifh the banks is fix weeks, or two months at the utaioit ; but there are feveral interruptions, which...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 5

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 848 pages
...said that the pearl becomes so large and inconvenient to the fish, that it throws it out of the shell. The fishing season commences in February, and ends...days from exceeding more than about thirty. If it happens to be a very bad season, and many stormy day* intervene during the period allotted, the purchaser...
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Oriental Commerce, Or, The East India Trader's Complete Guide: Containing a ...

William Milburn - Asia - 1825 - 646 pages
...particularly Tuticorin, Karical, and Negapatam on the Coromandel Coast, and Quilon on the Malabar Coast. The fishing season commences in February, and ends about the beginning of April. CALPENTEEN.— The Fort of Calpenteen is situated upon the N. end of a neck of land, which extends...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 16

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...become so large and so disagreeable lo the fishes, that they vomit and throw them out or the shell. The fishing season commences in February, and ends about the beginning of April. The period allowed the merchant for fishing the banks 1.1 six weeks, or at the roost two months ; but the interruptions...
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