| 1818 - 590 pages
...before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface...that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pages
...before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface...that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are general ly of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When... | |
| Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 504 pages
...before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface...that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When... | |
| 1818 - 514 pages
...before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the whole surface of...that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When... | |
| 1818 - 512 pages
...before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the whole surface of...rapid motion in all directions, probably to catch fpod. Others are so sluggish that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock, and are generally of... | |
| Basil Hall - 1818 - 220 pages
...before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface...moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, prol>ably to catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock,... | |
| 1818 - 590 pages
...were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes ; and in such number, that in a short time the whole surface of the rock...moved about with a rapid motion in all directions, probihly to catch food. Others are so sluggish that they may be mistaken for pieces of the rock; they... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818 - 628 pages
...before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and 8'zes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface...the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most comRion worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches '°°g> which are moved about... | |
| 1818 - 428 pages
...before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the whole surface of the rock appears in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which... | |
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