 | Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy - 1979 - Страниц: 438
...pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when moving towards any definite point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's...sooner than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they can move a distance of about eight miles in... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1984 - Страниц: 508
...pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when moving towards any definite point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's...sooner than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they can move a distance of about 8 miles in two... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1989 - Страниц: 452
...inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they can move a distance of about 8 miles in two or three days. One large tortoise, which I watched, I found walked at the rate of 60 yards in ten minutes, that is 360 in the hour, or 4 miles a day, allowing... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - Страниц: 930
...pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's...at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day, — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During... | |
 | Michael Hume Jackson - 1993 - Страниц: 369
...move with surprising speed and determination: The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's...at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day, — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. (Darwin... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - Страниц: 382
...pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's...at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During... | |
 | Gregory McNamee, Luis Alberto Urrea - 1997 - Страниц: 164
...pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's...at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day, — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During... | |
 | Justin Gerlach - 1998 - Страниц: 51
...pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's...at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day - allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During... | |
 | Jeffrey Kevin McKee - 2000 - Страниц: 312
...persistently toward food sources or breeding grounds. "One large tortoise, which I watched, I found walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 in the hour, or four miles a day,—allowing also a little time for it to eat on the road." 6 A... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - Страниц: 1160
...pericardium, which is described as being best. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's...at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day,— allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During... | |
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The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's end much sooner than would be expected. 
