The supply of salmon was obtained mainly, as in 1871, from the weirs in the southern part of Verona.
Mayo, who has fished herring brush-weirs at the Cranberry Isles for many years, and is a life-long fisherman in that section, communicates the intelligence that salmon were first observed about those islands in 1888.
From the weirsto the boats and from the boats to the tanks they were dipped in great canvas bags.
A ten-pound salmon and seventeen tautog, weighing over one hundred pounds, were taken from theweirs of Magnolia, Thursday night.
It is still found most convenient to obtain the stock of breeding salmon, as in the early years of the enterprise, from about a dozen weirs in the Penobscot River along the shores of the island of Verona.
They often have two or three of these weirs in the same stream, at some little distance from each other.
Fishing is carried on by the Mafulu people by means of weirs placed across streams, the weirs having open sluices with intercepting nets, and smaller nets being used to catch such fish as escape the big ones.
No corn nor meal could Lane procure, but the weirs were full of fish, and the men were able to satisfy their hunger, and having rested at Chepanock that night they returned to Roanoke Island next morning.
He owned some 4,000 acres at the suppression, extending on the south side of the Boyne from Drogheda to Rossnaree, and on the north, to Slane, including the fisheries and five salmon weirs on the river.
These mackerel are not apt to take the hook, but are caught in weirs and seines, a practice tending to inevitable scarcity in the future.
The hook caught those leviathans as the Penobscot weirs catch salmon.
Large bodies of natives depend upon these weirs for their sole subsistence, for some time after the waters have commenced to recede.
They are caught with weirs or dams, as already described; and also with large seines made of string manufactured from the rush, and buoyed up with dry reeds, bound into bundles, and weighted by stones tied to the bottom.
The Indians had taught them how to spear large fish and erect weirs out of stakes and brushwood to entrap migrating schools.
Oysters and crabs and such fish as they take in their weirsis their best relief.
Very common in shallow sandy bays, and forming the staple food of the natives, who assemble in fine calm days, and drive shoals of this fish into weirs that they have constructed of shrubs and branches of trees.
But this was looked on as too near the limit of safety to be relied on, and in 1899 subsidiary weirs were started across both branches of the river a short distance below the two barrages.
Across the apex of the deltas are built great weirs (that of the Godaveri being 2(1/2) m.
The Sangam and Pennar systems depend on two weirs on the river Pennar in the Nellore district, the former about 18 m.
These weirs were satisfactorily completed in 1901.
From these weirsflow canals altogether about 127 m.
The system consists of weirs over the rivers Gulleri, Mahanadi and Rushikulya in the backward province of Ganjam, south of Orissa.
Did some ancient progenitor of the Weirs and Jenners puzzle his brains about the mating of birds, and has the question become indelibly fixed in all your minds?
Below, theweirs of Casterton, spouting by a hundred channels, through the bucks and under the mills.
Dams and fishing weirs are built across streams by the inhabitants of most countries.
We are having the loveliest weather, and yesterday went looking up weirs with more or less absurd passes up a charming valley not far hence.
He entered into the affair with a warmth and readiness which very agreeably surprised me, and he proposes making such arrangements as will not oblige me to have anything to do with the weirs or the actual inspection.
We stopped at Worcester yesterday, and I went to examine some weirs hard by.
Glenn's Ferry was one of the better fishing sites; the waters between the three islands in the Snake River at this point were shallow enough for weirs to be used.
The weirs were put in the water each spring and dismantled in the fall and stored.
The weirs were usually the work of the winter population of the salmon areas, but one informant stated that the Bannock shared in the catch.
Shimkin specifically states that "no private ownership of good fishing places existed, and dams and weirs were not maintained from year to year" (ibid.
Certain men were considered especially proficient in the construction and operation of fish weirs and assumed supervision over the operation.
John Smith mentions their use in Virginia, and Hariot gives a number of plates in which the weirs are delineated.
The only apparent traces of such weirs yet found in any part of the country are a number of stumps of stakes discovered by H.
The Wye was found to be an exceptionally difficult stream to tame and control, and Sandys' attempt to make it navigable by locks and weirs on the pound-lock system was a failure.
Mills were numerous, and the weirs changed completely in character.
Aubeterre was still some miles off by water, and there were weirsto overcome.
The miller saw us from the other end of his dam, which was a rather long way off, for these weirs do not cross at right angles with the banks, but start at a very obtuse one at a point far above the mill.
Several moreweirs were passed; one with great difficulty, for the canoe had to be dragged and jolted thirty or forty yards through the corner of a wood.
Near the forks the Tushepaws have had an encampment which is but recently abandoned, for the grass is entirely destroyed by horses, and two fish weirs across the creek are still remaining; no fish were however to be seen.
The sluices near the locks take the place of the weirs used in the old Mersey and Irwell navigation; they are 30 ft.
We have but few fish; the men that undertook the weirs were very slow and unfaithful, and not only neglected the fisheries but the Mill also, for which reason we have not a full load for the Sloop.
The other sense was discouraging: the Commissioners had not yet done with the weirs, and the weirs were still in danger of being pulled down, as engines which obstructed the free navigation of the river Bawn.
If that were true, and Alfred Paulton recovered, then he would have to think of building a house somewhere near the weirs for--Madge.
In two senses of the phrase, the weirs were still where they had been five weeks ago.
My salmon weirsobstruct as much the navigation of the Bawn as they do of the Euphrates or the Mississippi!
She is older than he, and I am sure she would not marry him, even if a sleepy Government would only have the good sense and good taste to hang Blake instead of worrying honest folk about weirs and other things.
When Jerry heard the whole state of affairs, he felt considerably relieved on the score of his salmon weirs on the lower Bawn.
Well, even the weirs and the commissioners in moderation would be better than dwelling on this wretched business about poor Alfred.
Nothing more about those weirsand the commissioners, I hope.
When the weirs are out of danger," said the solicitor, "I know the next job you'll give me to do.
One of these senses was satisfactory: the weirs had not been pulled down by the ruthless Commissioners.
He wished the Commissioners would let his weirs alone, so that he might marry Madge Paulton.
They'll end by tearing up myweirs and leaving me to graze on the parish.
Sometimes these traps were weirs or by-washes, made of long lateral tanks of wicker-work.
The locks, mill-dams, or weirs with their dashing waters, give animation to the scene.
The occasional locks and the frequent weirs break the level, and the latter especially--sometimes miniature rapids or waterfalls--add picturesqueness to the scene.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weirs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
