 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...you cut off the pectoral fins, ie the pair which lies close behind the gills, the head falls prone to the bottom : if the right pectoral fin only be...loses its equilibrium entirely : if the dorsal and verttral fins be cut off, the fish reels to the right and left. When the fish dies, that is, when the... | |
 | William Paley - God - 1811 - 574 pages
...you cut off the pectoral fins, i. e, the pair which lies close behind the gills, the head falls prone to the bottom : if the right pectoral fin only be...loses its equilibrium entirely ; if the dorsal and ventral fins be cut off, the fish reels to the right and left. When the fish dies, that is, when the... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1812 - 654 pages
...the Pectoral fins (that is the pair which is close behind the Gills) be cut off, the Head falls prone to the bottom : if the right pectoral fin only be...loses its Equilibrium entirely : if the dorsal and ventral fins be cut off, the fish reels to the right and left. When the fish dies, that is when the... | |
 | Thomas Best - Fishing - 1814 - 286 pages
...if you cut off the pectotal fins, ie the pair which lie close behind the gills, the head falls prone to the bottom : if the right pectoral fin only be...loses its equilibrium entirely : if the dorsal and ventral fins becut off, the fish reels to the right and left. When the fish dies, that is, when the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 498 pages
...to supply its loss by keeping the rest of its fins in constant employment. If the right pectoral fin be cut off, the fish leans to that side ; if the ventral...cut away, then it loses its equilibrium entirely. When the tail is cut off, the fish loses all motion, and gives itself up to where the water impels... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 790 pages
...Apodes, or fish which have no ventral or belly fins. This order includes all the eel tribes, whether they the right pectoral fin only be cut off, the fish leans...the ventral fin on the same side be cut away, then ¡closes its equilibrium entirely : if the dorsal and ventral fins be cut off, the neh reels to the... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...you cut off the pectoral fins, ic the pair which lies close behind the gills, the head falls prone to the bottom : if the right pectoral fin only be...fin on the same side be cut away, then it loses its equilibrinm entirely ; if the dorsal and ventral fins be cut off, the fish reels to the right and left.... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...you cut off the pectoral fins, ie the pair which lies close behind the gills, the head falls prone to the bottom : if the right pectoral fin only be...loses its equilibrium entirely ; if the dorsal and ventral fins be cut off, the fish reels to the right and left . When the fish dies, that is, when the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Zoology - 1824 - 510 pages
...supply its loss by keeping the. rest of its fins in constant employment. If the right pectoral fin be cut off, the fish leans to that side; if the ventral...cut away, then it loses its equilibrium entirely. When the tail is cut off, the fish loses all motion, and gives itself up to where the Water impels... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1824 - 518 pages
...supply its loss by keeping the rest of its fiits in constant employment. If the right pectoral fin be cut off, the fish leans to that side ; if the ventral...fin on the same side be cut away, then it loses its equilibrinm entirely. When the tail is cut off, the fish loses all motion, and gives itself up to where... | |
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... to the bottom ; if the right pectoral fin only be cut off, the fish leans to that side ; if the ventral fin on... 
