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"In a fair day, if the sky seem to be dappled with clouds, (which is usually termed a mackarel sky), it generally predicts rain.
The Complete Weather Guide: A Collection of Practical Observations for Prognosticating the ... Joseph Taylor, John Claridge 1812
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For a taste of Senegal, try the fatayas, mackarel empanadas flavored with chiles.
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The highest levels of oil-related metals will likely occur in large fish such as tuna and mackarel many years in the future.
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Some suppose it was the Herring or Sprat; others believe it was the mackarel; after all, perhaps it was the
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We sometimes see the dory, which is called St Pierre; with rock-fish, bonita, and mackarel.
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The Frith of Clyde, on the other side of the hill, supplies us with mullet, red and grey, cod, mackarel, whiting, and a variety of sea-fish, including the finest fresh herrings I ever tasted.
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Nevertheless, we have excellent soles, skaite, flounders and whitings, and sometimes mackarel.
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The fishery of mackarel and herring is so considerable on this coast, that it is said to yield annually eight or nine hundred thousand livres, about thirty-five thousand pounds sterling.
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In the intermediate classes may be reckoned sharks of a monstrous size, skait, rock-cod, grey-mullet, bream, horse-mackarel, now and then a sole and john dory, and innumerable others unknown in Europe, many of which are extremely delicious, and many highly beautiful.
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The coast produces an amazing quantity of fish, particularly mackarel, which are in great abundance, and run in shoals about six fathom under water.
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