History of the Earth And Animated Nature With Numerous Notes From the Works of
History of the Earth And Animated Nature With Numerous Notes From the Works of
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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It was taken in great quantities in the Thames from Battersea Reach to Taplow Mills, and was sold to the Dutch as bait for the turbot, cod, and other fisheries. Four hundred thousand have been sold in one season for this purpose, at the rate of forty shillings per thousand. From five pounds to eight pounds the thousand have been given; but a comparative scar- city of late years, and consequent increase in price, has obliged the line fishermen to adopt other substances for bait. Formerly the Tha...mes alone supplied from cue million to twelve hundred thousand lamperns annually. They are very tenacious of life, and the Dutch fishermen managed to keep them alive at sea for many weeks. If this species, which is very easily obtained, be ex- amined in the months of March or April, the distinc- tion of the sexes will be immediately evident on opening them. The female may generally be known externally by the larger size of the abdomen, and the male by his lips being more tumid and the mouth larger than that of the female.
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