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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, since in the surge of asea the rope would break. This fishery, carried on among ice floesof the Northern seas, is filled with incident and not devoid of peril.Notwithstanding the important improvements which have beenmade in recent years in some directions, the one thing, which im-presses itself upon the mind in studying the details of the methodsof fishery, is the fact that in many respects fishing is conductedessentially in the same manner that it was many centuries ago.This is well illustrated by the following graphic description, writtenmore than seventeen hundred years ago by Ossian, who says: By those who curious have their Art defind,Four Sorts of Fishers are distinct assignd.The first in Hooks delight; here some prepareThe Angles taper Length, and twisted Hair:Others the tougher Threads of Flax entwine,But firmer H;inds sustain the Sturdy Line.A third prevails by more compendious Ways,While numrous Hooks one common Line displays.The next with Nets wide-wasting skim the Seas,
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^34 FISHERIES. But diffrent Forms with diffrent prospects please!Some hurl the leaded Casiing-Net around,And drag the Circle lessning from the Ground,The wide extended Seine and Trammel sweepThe shelving beach, the Drag-Net skims the Deep;The Hoop-Nets Conick Labnnth plies the Shore,Heave-Nets the Fishes oozy Beds explore.A thousand Names a Fisher might rehearseThat shun intractable the smoother Verse. Perhaps the most important part of that section of the exhibitwhicli illustrates the commercial tishinof interests is the greatcollection of products, and .the representation by models, andotherwise, of their utilization and preparation. It is not possibleto mention these in detail. Suffice it to say that there have beengathered samples of those treasures which are sought in every sea,lake and river, and the proper utilization of which, in many in-stances, has taxed to the utmost the inventive ingenuity of man-kind. Fish dried, salted, smoked, tinned, or otherwise prepared forfood, appe

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