A System of Natural History: Containing Scientific and Popular Descriptions of Various AnimalsPeck & Wood, 1834 - Всего страниц: 684 |
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... live constantly in water , respiration is effected by means of mem- branous lamina , called gills , ( branchia , ) which separate the air from the water , as it passes over their multiplied surface . Among animals which appear to have ...
... live constantly in water , respiration is effected by means of mem- branous lamina , called gills , ( branchia , ) which separate the air from the water , as it passes over their multiplied surface . Among animals which appear to have ...
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... live to the years of ninety or a hundred . Beyond that date our ancestors did not live ; nor has it in any degree varied since the time of David . From a careful inspection of the registers of burials , in a certain number of country ...
... live to the years of ninety or a hundred . Beyond that date our ancestors did not live ; nor has it in any degree varied since the time of David . From a careful inspection of the registers of burials , in a certain number of country ...
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... live eight years longer ; that an infant of one year , will live thirty - three years longer ; that an infant of two years , will live thirty - eight years longer ; that a man of twenty , will live thirty - three years and five months ...
... live eight years longer ; that an infant of one year , will live thirty - three years longer ; that an infant of two years , will live thirty - eight years longer ; that a man of twenty , will live thirty - three years and five months ...
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... live under ground , or in huts almost entirely covered with earth , and with the bark of certain trees , or the skins of certain fishes ; and some form subterranean trenches , by which one hut communicates with another , and by which ...
... live under ground , or in huts almost entirely covered with earth , and with the bark of certain trees , or the skins of certain fishes ; and some form subterranean trenches , by which one hut communicates with another , and by which ...
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... live on the south side of Senegal . These people , as well as those who occupy the different terri- tories between Senegal and Gambia , are called Jalofes . They are all very black , well proportioned , and of a size sufficiently tall ...
... live on the south side of Senegal . These people , as well as those who occupy the different terri- tories between Senegal and Gambia , are called Jalofes . They are all very black , well proportioned , and of a size sufficiently tall ...
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Стр. 410 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Стр. 448 - ... settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the...
Стр. 111 - She went off a second time as before ; and having crawled a few paces, looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. But still her cubs not rising to follow her, she returned to them again, and with signs of inexpressible fondness went round one, and round the other, pawing them and moaning.
Стр. 448 - Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below, — the snow-white Gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy...
Стр. 656 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Стр. 498 - This excessive fondness for variety, however, in the opinion of some, injures his song. His elevated imitations of the brown thrush are frequently interrupted by the crowing of cocks : and the warblings of the...
Стр. 514 - The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail', is about three feet eight inches.
Стр. 448 - Tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention.
Стр. 190 - ... once. I begged to wait for my gun; but no — the fowling-piece, (loaded with ball, of course,) and the two hogspears, were quite enough. I got a hedge-stake, and awaited my fate, from very shame. At this moment, to my great delight, there arrived from the fort an English officer, two artillery-men, and a Malay captain; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a minute afterwards. The whole scene which follows...
Стр. 561 - The feathers on its wings and tail are black ; but those on its body, and under its wings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. It has a small crest on its head, green at the bottom, and as it were gilded at the top ; and which sparkles in the sun like a little star in the middle of its forehead. The bill is black, straight, slender, and of the length of a small pin.