The Field Book: or, Sports and pastimes of the United Kingdom: compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modernMaxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton)
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The Field Book: or, Sports and pastimes of the United Kingdom: compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton)
Amusements -- Great Britain; Sports -- Dictionaries; Sports -- Great Britain
Take of nitre, levigated antimony, and powdered resin, of each two or
three drachms; mix for one dose, and give it every morning in a mash
until it acts as a diuretic. When cough happens to young horses, and the
membranes of the eye appear red, the loss of a little blood, and a
clyster, are likely to do good.
DRENCH FOR COUGH.
Bruise three ounces of fresh squills in a mortar, or four or five ounces
of garlic; and macerate in twelve ounces of vinegar in a slow oven, or
on a hot plate, for an hour; strain off the liquid part, and add to it
treacle or honey one pound. The dose should be three or four ounces in
bad coughs; where there appears great irritation in the larynx, two
teaspoonfuls or one tablespoonful of tincture of opium may be added to
two or three doses. A dose may be given every morning.—_White._
COULTERNEB, (_Fratercula arctica_, BRISS.) _s._
The weight of this species is between twelve and thirteen ounces; length
exceeds twelve inches. The bill is of a very singular form; it is about
an inch and a half deep at the base, much compressed sideways, and
arched, but ends in a point, where the upper mandible is a little
hooked: at the base of this mandible is an elevated rim, full of small
punctures of a light colour; next to which is a space of blueish grey,
at the bottom of which the nostrils are lodged at the edge, which is a
long narrow slit; from thence it is orange-coloured with four oblique
furrows; the under mandible corresponds in colour, but has only three
furrows; irides hazel, in some greyish; orbits, red; above the eye is a
triangular callous protuberance, beneath an oblong one; the top of the
head and whole upper parts are black, passing round the neck in a
collar; the sides of the head and all the under parts are pure white;
the chin in some is grey, in others white, and the cheeks are grey;
quills dusky; tail short, and consists of sixteen feathers; legs and
feet orange; claws black, the inner one much hooked.
It is remarked that the bill of this bird varies much according to age;
at first it has no furrows, and is of a dusky-colour, the yellow colour
and furrows increasing with age.
These birds appear on many parts of our rocky coasts about the middle of
April, and begin to breed about the middle of May. On the stupendous
cliffs of Dover, and such places, they deposit their single eggs, in the
holes and crevices; in other places they burrow like rabbits, if the
soil is light; but more frequently take possession of rabbit-burrows,
and lay their egg many feet under ground. This is the case on Priestholm
Isle off the coast of Anglesea, and other small islands off St.
David’s-head, where the soil is sandy.
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