The Journal of a Naturalist ...Carey & Lea, 1831 - 286 pages |
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... Increase and decrease of animals - Migration of rats -Water shrew - its residence and habits - common shrew mouse - Pale blue shrew - Mole - his actions - character - abundance of - easily discovers his food - structure of his body ...
... Increase and decrease of animals - Migration of rats -Water shrew - its residence and habits - common shrew mouse - Pale blue shrew - Mole - his actions - character - abundance of - easily discovers his food - structure of his body ...
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... increase - destruction - great consumers of insects - accommodating appe- Page 108-150 tite Creatures associating ... increasing bird— Yellow wagtail - Rapacious birds - Passerine birds - Buntings - unthatch- ing corn ricks - Old tokens ...
... increase - destruction - great consumers of insects - accommodating appe- Page 108-150 tite Creatures associating ... increasing bird— Yellow wagtail - Rapacious birds - Passerine birds - Buntings - unthatch- ing corn ricks - Old tokens ...
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John Leonard Knapp. 12 SOIL . rials for its use . As colonies increase , wants are aug- mented ; the woods are consumed ; the plow is intro- duced , division of property follows ; a total change and obliteration ensues , though the ...
John Leonard Knapp. 12 SOIL . rials for its use . As colonies increase , wants are aug- mented ; the woods are consumed ; the plow is intro- duced , division of property follows ; a total change and obliteration ensues , though the ...
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... increasing , and visibly forming : -all drawn from the waters of the ocean by a minute creature , that wonder- ful agent in the hands of Providence , the coral insect . This brief account of the origin of calcareous rocks was , perhaps ...
... increasing , and visibly forming : -all drawn from the waters of the ocean by a minute creature , that wonder- ful agent in the hands of Providence , the coral insect . This brief account of the origin of calcareous rocks was , perhaps ...
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... increasing until it ignited the stones upon which his feet were placed . Lulled by the warmth , the man slept on ; the fire increased until it burned one foot ( which probably was extended over a vent - hole ) and part of the leg above ...
... increasing until it ignited the stones upon which his feet were placed . Lulled by the warmth , the man slept on ; the fire increased until it burned one foot ( which probably was extended over a vent - hole ) and part of the leg above ...
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Page 160 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 7 - A COLLECTION OF COLLOQUIAL PHRASES, ON EVERY TOPIC NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN CONVERSATION, Arranged under different heads, with numerous remarks on the peculiar pronunciation and...
Page 57 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 290 - Arts, the work will be exceedingly rich. Great attention was given to this in the German work, and the Editors have been anxious to render it, by the necessary additions, as perfect as possible. To gentlemen of the Bar, the work will be peculiarly valuable, as in cases where legal subjects are treated, an account is given of the provisions of Anieri-, can, English, French, Prussian, Austrian, and Civil Law.
Page 129 - ... as it is appointed the earliest of risers, it would commonly be famished. In the hot summer of 1825, many of the young brood of the season perished from want; the mornings were without dew, and consequently few or no worms were to be obtained ; and we found them dead under the trees, having expired on their roostings. It was particularly distressing, for no relief could be- given, to hear the constant clamor and importunity of the young for food.
Page 147 - We observed this summer two common thrushes frequenting the shrubs on the green in our garden. From the slenderness of their forms, and the freshness of their plumage, we pronounced them to be birds of the preceding summer. There was an association and friendship between them that called our attention to their actions ; one of them seemed ailing or feeble from some bodily accident, for, though it hopped about, yet it appeared unable to obtain a sufficiency of food.
Page 31 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 291 - The variety of topics is of course vast, and they are treated in a manner which is at once so full of information and so interesting, that the work, instead of being merely referred to, might be regularly perused with as much pleasure as profit.