Natural History of QuadrupedsHarper & Bros., 1839 - 324 Seiten |
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Africa Akaba animal antelope appear Arabian Arabs Asia attached beast beautiful birds body bones Buffon Burckhardt called camel Captain caravan carried chamois chase circumstance colour Comparative Anatomy creature Cuvier danger deer described desert devour distance driver dromedary enabled Esquimaux dog extraordinary faculty fear feet female ferocious foot fore legs frontal bone giraffe ground habits hair hartebeest head herds horns horse Hottentot hour human hundred hunt hunter hyæna Indians inhabitants instinct jackal journey killed Lapland LINNÆUS lion living llama load Mecca menagerie miles mode mountains Muslin natives naturalists nature neck never Newfoundland dogs night Nubia object observed peculiar pilgrims plain prey produced quadrupeds quagga race red deer regions reindeer remarkable rendered says seen semoum sheep skin sledge snow sometimes South America species spot springboks tail teeth tiger tion traveller tribe wild winter wolf wolves young
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Seite 35 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Seite 242 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Seite 239 - The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Seite 196 - The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants : they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
Seite 115 - ... that general Visitation of God, Who saw that all that He had made was good, that is, conformable to His Will, which abhors deformity, and is the rule of order and beauty.
Seite 120 - The bottom of the cavern is nearly horizontal, and is entirely covered to the depth of about a foot, with a sediment of mud deposited by the diluvian waters.
Seite 163 - HUNT. 167 size than those of Bengal and Chittagong. He sat in a low howdah, with two or three guns ranged beside him, ready for action. Mr. Boulderson had also a formidable apparatus of musquets and fowling-pieces, projecting over his mohout's head.
Seite 139 - ... very apt to be dangerous by prowling about the place in search of more game, I resolved to have him destroyed or dislodged without delay. I therefore sent a messenger round the location to invite all who were willing to assist in the...
Seite 99 - ... the wolves assemble in great numbers and, forming a crescent, creep slowly towards the herd so as not to alarm them much at first but, when they perceive that they have fairly hemmed in the unsuspecting creatures and cut off their retreat across the plain, they move more quickly and with hideous yells terrify their prey and urge them to flight by the only open way, which is...
Seite 324 - Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. With the last Corrections of the Author, and Notes from the Twenty-first London Edition. With copious Notes explaining the Changes in the Law effected by Decision or Statute down to 1844.