 To an animal of such habits, the weight of the tusks sustained in water would have been no source of inconvenience; and if we suppose them to have been employed as instruments for raking and grubbing up by the roots large aquatic vegetables from the bottom,...  Natural History: Mammalia - Page 126by Philip Henry Gosse - 1848 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Children - 1836 - 498 pages
...grubbing up by the roots large aquatic vegetables from the bottom, they would, under such service, combine the mechanical powers of the pick-axe with those of...supposed, as the power of the harrow is increased by being loaded with weights. The tusks of the Dinotherium may also have been applied with mechanical... | |
 | Geology - 1837 - 454 pages
...grubbing up by the roots large aquatic vegetables from the bottom, they would, under such service, combine the mechanical powers of the pick-axe with those of...would add to their efficiency for the service here lupposed, as the power of the harrow is increased by being loaded with weights. The tusks of the Dinotherium... | |
 | Science - 1837 - 476 pages
...grubbing up by the roots large aquatic vegetables from the bottom, they would, under such service, combine the mechanical powers of the pick-axe with those of...supposed, as the power of the harrow is increased by being loaded with weights. The tusks of the Dinotherium may also have been applied with mechanical... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1837 - 476 pages
...their efficiency for the service here supposed, as the power of the harrow is increased by being loaded with weights. The tusks of the Dinotherium may also...have been applied with mechanical advantage to hook the head of the animal to the bank, with the nostrils sustained above the water, so as to breathe securely... | |
 | 1845 - 518 pages
...from the bottom, they would, under such service, combine the mechanical powers of the pickaxe witli those of the horseharrow of modern husbandry. The...supposed, as the power of the harrow is increased by being loaded with weights. " The tusks of the dinotherium may also have been applied, with mechanical... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geology - 1852 - 306 pages
...by the roots large aquatic vegetables from the bottom, they would render such service, and combine the mechanical powers of the pickaxe with those of...supposed ; as the power of the harrow is increased by being loaded with weights. The tusks of the dinotherium may also, he adds, have been applied with mechanical... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 394 pages
...for raking and grubbing up by the roots large aquatic vegetables from the bottom, they would combine the mechanical powers of the pick-axe with those of...these downward tusks, would add to their efficiency, the more so as the skull was obviously connected with very powerful muscles, which would give that... | |
 | Edward Steane Jackson - Geology - 1867 - 94 pages
...grubbing up by the roots large aquatic vegetables from the bottom, they would under such service combine the mechanical powers of the pickaxe with those of...is increased by loading it with weights. The tusks may also have been applied to hook on the head of the animal to the bank, with the nostrils sustained... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 1170 pages
...husbandry. The weight of the head, placed above them, would add to their efficiency for such service, as the power of the harrow is increased by loading it with weights. If we come to shell-fish, and lower still, to vegetables, then, as Hugh Miller points out, there is... | |
 | English periodicals - 1862 - 520 pages
...grubbing up the roots of large aquatic vegetables from the bottom, they would under such service combine the mechanical powers of the pickaxe with those of...modern husbandry. The weight of the head, placed above those downward tusks, would add to their efficiency for the service here supposed, as the power of... | |
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