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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesanimal antenna appear base beds bill bird Blainville body bones British brown called calyx carpels cavity cells characters chyle claws coal colour common consists corolla cotyledons covered Crustacea Cuvier described Dodo dorsal drupe Duck Echinodermata edges eggs elytra embryo Entomostraca external extremity feathers feet female fish flowers fossil fruit furnished Gavial genera genus genus of Plants Gray head inches inhabitants insects joints Lamarck leaves legs length Limestone Lindley Linn male mandible membrane mouth native natural order nearly neck nostrils oblong observed occurs Oolitic operculum organs oval ovary pair petals placed Plants belonging plumage portion posterior rays resembling round scales seeds sepals shell short side smooth species specimen spines stamens stem strata substance surface tail teeth Temminck terminal thick thorax toes tooth transverse trees tribe tube vegetable wings yellow young Popular passagesPage 684 - But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses : forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, ye shall henceforth return no more that way. Page 267 - The full-grown condor measures, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail... Page 97 - The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs from... Page 61 - That this venenation shooteth from the eye, and that this way a basilisk may empoison, although thus much be not agreed upon by authors, some imputing it unto the breath, others unto the bite, it is not a thing impossible. " For eyes receive offensive impressions from their objects, and may have influences destructive to each other. For the visible species of things strike not our senses immaterially, but, streaming in corporal raies, do carry with them the qualities of the object from whence they... Page 470 - Luidia to tha purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him, or the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. Page 97 - Frankfort, when, about ten o'clock, the pigeons which I had observed flying the greater part of the morning northerly, began to return in such immense numbers as I never before had witnessed. " Coming to an opening by the side of a creek called the Benson, where I had a more uninterrupted view, I was astonished at their appearance; they were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gun-shot, in several strata deep, and so close together that, could shot have reached... Page 97 - ... a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants from considerable distances visit them in the night, with guns, clubs, long poles, pots of sulphur, and various other engines of destruction. In a few hours they fill many sacks, and load their horses with them. By the Indians a pigeon roost, or breeding place, is considered an important source of national profit and dependence for that season ; and all their active ingenuity is exercised on the occasion. Page 379 - We frequently followed them, and found that afterwards the old ones went each their way alone, or in couples, and left the two young ones together, which we called amarriage. Page 97 - When they have frequented one of these places for some time, the appearance it exhibits is surprising. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches with their dung ; all the tender grass and underwood destroyed ; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girdled with an axe. Page 369 - SAW the picture of a strange fowle hong out upon a clotb, and myselfe, with one or two more then in company, went in to see it. It was kept in a chamber, and was a great fowle somewhat bigger than the largest... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarThe history and use of milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca L.)Erika E Gaertner - 1979 - Economic Botany A Theory of Conscription: Loyalty, Threats, and Labor MarketsNikola Mirilovic References from web pages中外文化：文学天地：英语文学史 Bibliographic information
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