 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 pages
...several inches deep, covering the whole extent of the roosting place, like a bed of snow. Many trees, two feet in diameter, I observed were broken off at...part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them : some were... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...several inches deep, covering the wholeextent of the roostingplace, like a bed of snow. Many trees two feet in diameter, I observed, were broken off...part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - Birds - 1832 - 472 pages
...several inches deep, covering the whole extent of the roosting place, like a bed of snow. Many trees, two feet in diameter, I observed, were broken off...of the forest, must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to seize them. Some were furnished... | |
 | John James Audubon - 1832 - 564 pages
...several inches deep, covering the whole extent of the roosting-place, like a bed of snow. Many trees two feet in diameter, I observed, were broken off...part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were... | |
 | Horse racing - 1833 - 776 pages
...the roosting place, like a bed of snow. Many trees two feet in diameter I observed, were broken oft" at no great distance from the ground, and the branches...of the forest, must be immense, beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1844 - 372 pages
...had given way, as if the forest had been swept by a tornado. Everything proved to me that the nnmber of birds resorting to this part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1834 - 698 pages
...unheeded by them ; and it was only 't sunrise that they seemed aware of being in dangerous company, nnd found that it was high time to sneak off from a place...pigeons, alighting upon a tree, could cause its upright bolt-, two feet in diameter, to break off at no great distance from the ground ? The branches of the... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...several inches deep, covering the whole extent of their roosting place, like a bed of snow. Many trees, two feet in diameter, I observed, were broken off...part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pages
...given way, as if the forest had been swept by a tornado. Everything proved to me that the number o( birds resorting to this part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...of the largest and tallest hod given way, as if the forest had been swept by a tornado. Everything proved to me that the number of birds resorting to...part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were... | |
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Every thing proved to me that the number of birds resorting to this part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them : some were furnished with iron pots containing... 
