 | Thomas Rupert Jones - Geology - 1875 - 908 pages
..." blowing." This " blowing," so familiar a feature of the Cetacea, but especially of the Mystieete, is quite analogous to the breathing of the higher...Arctic air this breath is generally condensed, and fulls upon thoso close at hand in the form of a dense spray, which may have led seamen to suppose that... | |
 | Thomas Rupert Jones - Geology - 1875 - 920 pages
...nostrils. It is most erroneously stated that the Whale ejects water from the " blow-holes." I.havo boon many times only a few feet from the Whale when "blowing,"...breath is generally condensed, and falls upon those dose at hand in the form of a dense spray, which may have Jed seamen to suppose that this vapour was... | |
 | Louis Guillaume Figuier - 1875 - 656 pages
...quite analogous to the breathing of the higher mammals, and the ' blowholes ' are the perfect analogues of the nostrils. It is most erroneously stated that...anything but the ordinary breath, a fact which might have almost been deduced from analogy. In the cold Arctic air this breath is generally condensed, and... | |
 | Henry Lee - Ocean - 1883 - 140 pages
...stated that the whale ejects water from the blow-holes. I have been many times only a few feet from a whale when ' blowing,' and, though purposely observing...and falls upon those close at hand in the form of a den se spray which may have led seamen to suppose that this vapour was originally ejected in the form... | |
 | Fisheries - 1883 - 718 pages
...stated that the whale ejects water from the blow-holes. I have been many times only a few feet from a whale when ' blowing,' and, though purposely observing...and falls upon those close at hand in the form of a den se spray which may have led seamen to suppose that this vapour was originally ejected in the form... | |
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blowing," and, though purposely observing it, could never see that it ejected from its nostrils anything but the ordinary breath — a fact which might almost have been deduced from analogy. In the cold Arctic air this breath is generally condensed,... 