 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - Страниц: 392
...coils of a gigantic serpent." Before sunset, Audubon reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh 55 miles; the pigeons were still passing in undiminished...and continued to do so for three days in succession. Audubon attempts to reckon the number of pigeons in one of these flocks, and the daily quantity of... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - Страниц: 760
...serpent," Before sunset, Audubon reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh 55 miles; the pigeous were still passing in undiminished numbers, and continued to do so for three days in succession. Audubon attempts to reckon the number of pigeons in one of these flocks, and the daily quantity of... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - Страниц: 340
...by, and on Mr. Audubon's arrival before sunset at Louisville, distant from Hardcnsburgh fifty-five miles, the pigeons were still passing in undiminished...and continued to do so for three days in succession. Mr. Audubon makes the following curious estimate of the number of pigeons contained in one only of... | |
 | 1832 - Страниц: 650
...by, and on Mr. Audubon's arrival before sunset at Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh fifty-five miles, the pigeons were still passing in undiminished...and continued to do so for three days in succession. Mr. Audubon makes the following curious estimate of the number of pigeons contained in one only of... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - Страниц: 430
...repose." " Before sunset," he adds afterward, " I reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh fifty-five miles. The pigeons were still passing in undiminished...do so for three days in succession."—* * * " The atmosphere, during this time, was strongly impregnated with the peculiar odour which emanates from... | |
 | William Swainson - 1840 - Страниц: 394
...my senses to repose. Before sunset 1 reached Louisville, — distance from Hardensburgh fifty-five miles. The pigeons were still passing in undiminished...crowded with men and boys, incessantly shooting at the pigeons, which there flew lower as they passed the river, — and multitudes were thus destroyed. For... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - Страниц: 430
...Before sunset," he adds afterterwards, " I reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh fifty-five miles. The pigeons were still passing in undiminished...to do so for three days in succession." * * * " The atmosphere, during this time, was strongly impregnated with the peculiar odor which emanates from the... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - Страниц: 350
...tendency to lull me to repose. Before sunset I reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh fiftyfive miles; the pigeons were still passing in undiminished numbers, and continued to do so for two or three days in succession. The people were all in arms. The banks of the Ohio were crowded with... | |
 | 1849 - Страниц: 96
...tendency to lull me to repose. Before sunset I reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh fifty-five miles ; the pigeons were still passing in undiminished numbers, and continued to do so for two or three days in succession. The people were all in arms. The banks of the Ohio were crowded with... | |
 | H D. Richardson - 1852 - Страниц: 158
...to lull my senses to repose. Before sunset I reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburg fifty-five miles, the pigeons were still passing in undiminished...crowded with men and boys incessantly shooting at the pigeons, which there flew lower as they passed the river, and multitudes were destroyed. For a week... | |
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Before sunset I reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh fiftyfive miles. The pigeons were still passing in undiminished numbers, and continued to do so for three days in succession. 
