| United States. Patent Office - House document (United States. Congress. House) - 1852 - 772 pages
...small brushwood is stuck up in the snow on each side of the door or entrance, and these hedge rows are continued along the open part of the lake, river,...the form of a crescent. The poor timorous animals, rinding themselves pursued, and mistaking the brushwood for ranks of people stationed to prevent their... | |
| United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1852 - 716 pages
...fifteen or twenty yards from each other, and ranged in such a manner as to form, two sides of along, acute angle, becoming gradually wider in proportion...thus becoming an easy prey to the ingenious hunter. The manoeuvre is sometimes so successful that whole families find subsistence without having occasion... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 932 pages
...crowded with hedges, in every opening of which a snare is set, made of thongs of deer-skin parchment, well twisted together, which are amazingly strong;...thus becoming an easy prey to the ingenious hunter. The manœuvre is sometimes во successful that whole families find subsistence without having occasion... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 802 pages
...gradually wider in proportion to the distance they extend from the pound, which sometimes is not Jess than two or three miles ; while the deer's path is...side, rush on, and entangle themselves in the snares, becoming an easy prey to the ingenious hunter. The manoeuvre is sometimes so successful that whole... | |
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