 | 1822 - 502 pages
...delicate and juicy ; so that, as Sir Stamford, in the description of its dissection, remarks, " it afforded no less interest under the knife, than satisfaction on the table." 6. On the Mean Density of the Earth. By Dr. Charles Button, FRS We can never feel satisfied that it... | |
 | John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - Mathematics - 1822 - 344 pages
...delicate and juicy ; so that, as Sir Stamford, in the description of its dissection, remarks, " it afforded no less interest under the knife, than satisfaction on the table." M. Sexullas has shewn, in the Journal de Pkarmacie for September, that all the antimonial preparations... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - Zoology - 1839 - 414 pages
...resembles young beef, and is very delicate and palatable. Sir T. Kaffles's words are — " It afforded much satisfaction on the table, as the flesh proved to be most excellent beef." According to the natives of Sumatra, the Dugong is never found on land, or in fresh water, but generally... | |
 | Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - Pinnipedia - 1839 - 406 pages
...resembles young beef, and is very delicate and palatable. Sir T. Raffles's words are — " It afforded much satisfaction on the table, as the flesh proved to be most excellent beef," According to the natives of Sumatra, the Dugong is never found on land, or in fresh water, but generally... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 856 pages
...ing has a right to all that are taken. Sir Stamford Raffles states that this species afforded much satisfaction on the table, as the flesh proved to be most excellent beef. The Dugong of the Red Sea is considered different from that above noticed, by Professor Riippell, who... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 840 pages
...king has a right to all that are taken. Sir Stamford Raffles states that this species afforded much satisfaction on the table, as the flesh proved to be most excellent beef. The Dugong of the Red Sea is considered different from that above noticed, by Professor Riippell, who... | |
 | Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - 1860 - 490 pages
...resembles young beef, and is very delicate and palatable. Sir T. Raffles's words are — " It afforded much satisfaction on the table, as the flesh proved to be most excellent beef." According to the natives of Sumatra, the Dugong is never found on land, or in fresh water, hut generally... | |
 | Physics - 1821 - 510 pages
...four feet six inches long, • From the Traniactions of the Royal Society for 1820. Part II. which which I have succeeded in persuading him to send home...as goblets. In form the dugong resembles the common cetacca, having, like them, a broad horizontal tail, and two pectoral fins without nails. The skin... | |
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According to the natives of Sumatra, the Dugong is never found on land, or in fresh water, but generally in the shallows of the sea, when the water is only two or three fathoms deep. " During our short possession of Singapore... 