Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. Natural history. Reptiles - Page 15by Philip Henry Gosse - 1850Full view - About this book
| Popular history - 1843 - 434 pages
...Chatham island, I could not imagine what animal travelled so methodically along the well-chosen tracks. " Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold...set returning after having drunk their fill. " When theTortoise arrives at the spring, quite regardless of any spectator, it buries its head in the water,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 1040 pages
...what animal travelled so methodically along the well-chosen tracks. Near'the springs it was a Lunous spectacle to behold many of these great monsters ;...one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched rc-cks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. When the tortoise arrives at the... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 602 pages
...curious spectacle, he observes, to behold many of these great monsters, one set eagerly traveling onward, with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. He remarked that, when the tortoise arrives at the spring, it buries its head in the water above the... | |
| Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...Chatham Island, I could not imagine what animal travelled so methodically along well-chosen tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning,... | |
| 1850 - 600 pages
...curious spectacle, he observes, to behold many of these great monsters, one set eagerly traveling onward, with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. He remarked that, when the tortoise arrives at the spring, it buries its head in the water above the... | |
| Literature - 1851 - 640 pages
...methodically along the well-chosen tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle, he observes, to behold many of these great monsters, one set eagerly...another set returning, after having drunk their fill. He remarked that, when the tortoise arrives at the spring, it buries its head in the water above the... | |
| William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 pages
...methodically along the well-chosen tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle, he observes, to behold many of these great monsters, one set eagerly...another set returning, after having drunk their fill. He remarked that, when the tortoise arrives at the spring, it buries its head in the water above the... | |
| Science - 1852 - 422 pages
...Chatham Island, I could not imagine what animal travelled so methodically along well-chosen tracks. Near the springs, it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning... | |
| William Somerville Orr - Science - 1855 - 564 pages
...Chatham Island, I could not imagine what animal travelled so methodically along the wellchosen tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold...these great monsters — one set eagerly travelling onward with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. AVhen the... | |
| William Somerville Orr - Science - 1855 - 566 pages
...Inland, I could not imagine what animal travelled so methodically along the wellchosen tracks. Xear the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many...these great monsters — one set eagerly travelling onward with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. 'When the... | |
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