| Popular history - 1843 - 434 pages
...arrive at their journey's end much sooner than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they can move...; or four miles a day, allowing also a little time to eat on the road. " During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 524 pages
...arrive at their journey'send much sooner than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they can move...One large tortoise which I watched, I found walked al the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is, 360 in the hour, or four miles a day — allowing... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 pages
...arrive at their journey 'send much sooner than would" be expected. The, inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they can move...distance of about eight miles in two or three "days. One larce tortoise which I watched, I found walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 1040 pages
...individuals, consider that they can more a distance of about eight miles in two or three days, ttoe larjre tortoise which I watched, I found walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is, 360 in the hour, • ' four miles a day — allowing also a little time for it to eat r the road. During... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...continue to move onward both by night and by day. Mr. Darwin watched one large tortoise, and found that it walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes ; that is, 360 in the hour, or four miles a-day, allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. The love-pranks... | |
| Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observing marked individuals, consider that they travel a distance of about eight miles in two or three days. One large tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day,... | |
| 1850 - 600 pages
...continue to move onward both by night and by day. Mr. Darwin watched one large tortoise, and found that it walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes ; that is, 360 in the hour, or four miles a-day, allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. The love-pranks... | |
| William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 pages
...to move onwards both by night and by day. Mr. Darwin watched one large tortoise, and found that it walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes ; that is, 360 in the hour, or four miles a-day, allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. The love-pranks... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 832 pages
...arrive at their journey's end much sooner than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they can move...; or four miles a day, allowing also a little time to eat on the road. " During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters... | |
| G. Garratt - Instinct - 1862 - 462 pages
...arrive at their journey's end much sooner than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they can move...walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, or four miles a-day, allowing also a little time to eat on the road. " I was always amused when overtaking... | |
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