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" ... number of the caterpillars are placed at the bottom. A peculiar species is chosen, which spins a strong web; and the animals commence at the bottom, eating and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but... "
The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of the ... - Page 409
by Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 844 pages
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The Saturday Magazine ..., Volume 1

1833 - 814 pages
...part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of ihese veils, combined with some strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26i by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which w ill appear more strongly...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 546 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...which these veils are made, weighs four grains and one third ; whilst one square yard of silk gauze weighs one hundred and thirty-seven grains, and one...
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On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures

Charles Babbage - Machinery - 1846 - 982 pages
...their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring all the rest of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...the substance of which these veils are made weighs 4i grains, whilst one square yard of silk gauze weighs 137 grains, and one square yard of the finest...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 32

1838 - 472 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them measuring 'Jl.ij by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear mere...
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The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction VOL.XXXII

The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction VOL.XXXII - 1838 - 474 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils, combined with some strength, ia truly surprising. One of them measuring 26¿ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 1

Commerce - 1839 - 566 pages
...strength, istinly surprising. One of them, measuring 26¿ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and л half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly...yard of the substance of which these veils are made weigbs 4i grains, whilst one square yard of silk gauze weigbs 137 grams, and one square yard of the...
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London Saturday Journal..., Volume 1

1839 - 444 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them measuring viiJ by 17 inches, weighed only a groin and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly...
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The Naturalist: Illustrative of the Animal, Vegetable, and ..., Volumes 4-5

Natural history - 1839 - 786 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26^ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 1

1839 - 568 pages
...way to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part ol the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils, combined...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 264 by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly...
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Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom, Volume 15

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1845 - 354 pages
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils, combined with their strength, is surprising. THE BUTTERFLY. In June, 1826, a column of butterflies, from ten to fifteen...
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