 | sir James Emerson Tennent (bart.) - 1859 - 702 pages
...Halicnrt Diu/mii/. of the mother while suckling her young, holding it to her breast with one flipper, while swimming with the other, holding the heads of...the movements of the dugong in the waters of Manaar. Megasthenes records the existence of a creature in the ocean, near Taprobane, with the aspect of a... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...NORTHERN FOREST?. of the mother while suckling her young, holding it to her breast with one flipper, while swimming with the other, holding the heads of...the " mermaid ;" and thus that earliest invention of mytliical physiology may be traced to the Arab seamen and the Greeks, who had watched the movements... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 700 pages
...tide." 2 Ifalictire of the mother while suckling her young, holding it ti her breast with one flipper, while swimming with the other, holding the heads of both above water, and whet disturbed, suddenly diving and displaying her fish-like tail, — these, together with her habitual... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1860 - 708 pages
...Jfalicore. Dtiyuny. of the mother while suckling her young, clasping it to her breast with one flipper, while swimming with the other, holding the heads of...seamen and the Greeks, who had watched the movements of die dugong in the waters of Mauaar. Megasthenes records the existence of a creature in the ocean, near... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1861 - 586 pages
...and the attitude of the mother when suckling her young, clasping it to her breast with one flipper, while swimming with the other, holding the heads of...the " mermaid ;" and thus that earliest invention 1 Halv-ore dugung, F. Cur. Museum of the Natural History 1 The skeleton is now in the Society of Belfast.... | |
 | William Jones (F. S.) - Marine animals - 1871 - 488 pages
...flipper while swimming with the other, the heads of both being above water; and when suddenly disturbed, diving and displaying her fishlike tail. These, together with her habitual demonstrations of strong natural affection, might readily give rise to the fable of the mermaid. Megasthenes records the existence... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 584 pages
...and the attitude of the mother while suckling her young, holding it to her breast with one flipper, while swimming with the other, holding the heads of both above water; and when disturbed, snddenly diving and displaying her fish-like tail- — these, together with her habitual demonstrations... | |
 | J. Wesley Van Dervoort - Ocean - 1886 - 530 pages
...flipper while swimming with the other, the heads of both being above water; and when suddenly disturbed, diving and displaying her fish-like tail. These, together with her habitual demonstrations of strong natural affection, might readily give rise to the fable of the mermaid. Megasthenes records the existence... | |
 | Government Museum (Chennai, India) - Ethnology - 1894 - 680 pages
...described by Teunent (op. cit.) when suckling her young, as holding it to her breast with one flipper, while swimming with the other, holding the heads of...suddenly diving and displaying her fish-like tail. The divers brought me from one of the neighbouring islands a single specimen of the hawk's bill turtle... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 788 pages
...and the attitude of the mother while suckling her young, holding it to her breast with one flipper, while swimming with the other, holding the heads of...movements of the dugong in the waters of Manaar.' There is possibility of the existence in the ocean of cetaceans not yet known to naturalists. In the... | |
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The price, on the spot, is about three shillings and ninepence for 1000, and "this quantity, he says, " can be easily collected by two men during one ebb tide." 5 Halicnrt Diu/mii/. of the mother while suckling her young, holding it to her breast with... 
