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" ... that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a pile, which might be raised to the top, if the animal could be instructed as to the necessary means of laying them in regular succession... "
The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects.. - Page 97
by James Rennie - 1831
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1826 - 918 pages
...occurred to the elephant-keeper, that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a pile, which might be raised to the top, if the ¡mi mal could be instructed as to the necessary means of laying them in regular succession under his...
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Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting ...

1826 - 390 pages
...elephantkeeper, that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood] might he lowered into the well to make a pile, which might be raised to the top, if the anima could be instructed as to the necessary means of laying them in regular succession under his...
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History ..., Volume 1

1827 - 492 pages
...occurred to the elephant keeper, that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a...very considerable height, the keeper had to teach this elephant the lesson, which by means of that extraordinary ascendency those men attain over the...
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The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects, Volume 2

James Rennie - 1831 - 434 pages
...occurred to the elephant keeper, that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a...animal could be instructed as to the necessary means of Jaying them in regular succession under his feet. Permission having been obtained from the engineer...
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Scientific Tracts, Volume 2

1832 - 602 pages
...sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be VOL- ii No. xxii i. 49 lowered into the well to make a pile, which might...raised to the top, if the animal could be instructed in the manner of placing them in regular succession under his feet. Permission having been obtained...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 2

1833 - 270 pages
...occurred to the elephantkeeper that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a pile, which might be raised to THE SATURDAY MAGAZINE. 141 the top, if the animal could be instructed as to the necessary means of laying...
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The Saturday Magazine ..., Volume 1

1833 - 814 pages
...occurred to the elephantkeeper that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a pile, which might be raised to 140 141 the top, if the animal could be instructed as to the necessary means of laying them in regular...
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Natural History of Quadrupeds, Volume 1

Frederic Shoberl - 1834 - 326 pages
...sufficient number of the fascines (which may be compared with bundles of wood) employed in the siege, might be lowered into the well to make a pile, which...raised to the top, if the animal could be instructed to lay them in regular succession under his feet. This lesson therefore he had first to teach the elephant,...
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The church scholar's reading-book, selected from the Saturday magazine

Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...occurred to the elephant-keeper that a sufficient mtmljcr of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a...laying them in regular succession under his feet; the keeper had to teach the cloplmnt this lesson, which by means of that extraordinary ascendancy these...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 pages
...occurred to the elephantkeeper that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a...instructed as to the necessary means of laying them in Kjrular succession under his feet. Permission having been obtained from the engineer-officers to use...
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