On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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... lives two hundred years ; there is a tree at Basle two hundred and fifty years old ; the oak is one hundred years in ... live but one year ; an ephemeron , in a flying state , only one day . But naturalists * The Indian fig is subject to ...
... lives two hundred years ; there is a tree at Basle two hundred and fifty years old ; the oak is one hundred years in ... live but one year ; an ephemeron , in a flying state , only one day . But naturalists * The Indian fig is subject to ...
Page 239
... live twenty years ; pikes have frequently attained ninety , the carp one hundred and fifty , and the amphibious tortoise three hundred . Hens live ten years , nightingales sixteen , linnets forty , geese fifty , parrots sixty , ravens ...
... live twenty years ; pikes have frequently attained ninety , the carp one hundred and fifty , and the amphibious tortoise three hundred . Hens live ten years , nightingales sixteen , linnets forty , geese fifty , parrots sixty , ravens ...
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... Live for some time without continuing to breathe . This faculty they derive from the circumstance of the lungs having been left out in the circulation of the blood . The opossum of Brazil is so difficult to kill , that when it has been ...
... Live for some time without continuing to breathe . This faculty they derive from the circumstance of the lungs having been left out in the circulation of the blood . The opossum of Brazil is so difficult to kill , that when it has been ...
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