Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World: Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.John Murray, 1873 - Всего страниц: 519 |
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... period when its horns are perfect , or free from the hairy skin . When in this state the meat is , of course , quite uneatable ; but the Gauchos assert , that if buried for some time in fresh earth , the taint is removed . I have ...
... period when its horns are perfect , or free from the hairy skin . When in this state the meat is , of course , quite uneatable ; but the Gauchos assert , that if buried for some time in fresh earth , the taint is removed . I have ...
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... period of infancy . " It is remarkable that some of the species , but not all , both of the Cuckoo and Molothrus , should agree in this one strange habit of their parasitical propa- gation , whilst opposed to each other in almost every ...
... period of infancy . " It is remarkable that some of the species , but not all , both of the Cuckoo and Molothrus , should agree in this one strange habit of their parasitical propa- gation , whilst opposed to each other in almost every ...
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... period , it probably formed the margin of a grand estuary , where the Colorado now flows . In this district , where absolute proofs of the recent elevation of the land occur , such speculations can hardly be neglected by any one ...
... period , it probably formed the margin of a grand estuary , where the Colorado now flows . In this district , where absolute proofs of the recent elevation of the land occur , such speculations can hardly be neglected by any one ...
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... period . From the bones of the Scelidotherium , including even the knee - cap , being intombed in their proper relative positions , and from the osseous armour of the great armadillo - like animal being so well preserved , together with ...
... period . From the bones of the Scelidotherium , including even the knee - cap , being intombed in their proper relative positions , and from the osseous armour of the great armadillo - like animal being so well preserved , together with ...
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... period of subsidence , of which we have no evidence ) since the great quadrupeds wandered over the sur- rounding plains ; and the external features of the country must then have been very nearly the same as now . What , it may natu ...
... period of subsidence , of which we have no evidence ) since the great quadrupeds wandered over the sur- rounding plains ; and the external features of the country must then have been very nearly the same as now . What , it may natu ...
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