Stories of the animal world; arranged so as to form a systematic introduction to zoology |
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... Fins ; Eels ; Electric Eel ; Sword- fish ; Codfish ; Haddock ; Whiting ; Hakes ; Ling ; Sucking Fish ; the John Doree ; Turbot ; Halibut ; Soles ; Plaice ; Perch ; Mackerel ; Thunny ; Sticklebacks ; Surmullet ; Gur- nard ; Fishing ...
... Fins ; Eels ; Electric Eel ; Sword- fish ; Codfish ; Haddock ; Whiting ; Hakes ; Ling ; Sucking Fish ; the John Doree ; Turbot ; Halibut ; Soles ; Plaice ; Perch ; Mackerel ; Thunny ; Sticklebacks ; Surmullet ; Gur- nard ; Fishing ...
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... fins . They live on the land or in the water ; and seem to form one of the great links between the land and sea animals . There are several varieties of them . Can you mention them ? There is the Arctic Walrus , the whale - tailed Ma ...
... fins . They live on the land or in the water ; and seem to form one of the great links between the land and sea animals . There are several varieties of them . Can you mention them ? There is the Arctic Walrus , the whale - tailed Ma ...
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... FINS , BUT NO FEET ; AND BREATH- ING HOLES , OR SPIRACLES , ON THEIR HEADS . It in- cludes the whole of the Whale and Dolphin tribes . The Sea - Unicorn * is from twenty to thirty feet long . Its horn is six or eight feet , and will ...
... FINS , BUT NO FEET ; AND BREATH- ING HOLES , OR SPIRACLES , ON THEIR HEADS . It in- cludes the whole of the Whale and Dolphin tribes . The Sea - Unicorn * is from twenty to thirty feet long . Its horn is six or eight feet , and will ...
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... fin on its back ; but there is a smaller species which has one between three and four feet long . Is not spermaceti made from the whale ? The blunt - headed cachalot , or spermaceti whale , furnishes it from an ample cavity in the upper ...
... fin on its back ; but there is a smaller species which has one between three and four feet long . Is not spermaceti made from the whale ? The blunt - headed cachalot , or spermaceti whale , furnishes it from an ample cavity in the upper ...
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... fins , and are not used for flight . In- deed , they use their fins as oars . Incredible numbers of them are found in the South Sea islands . Falkland Island abounds with them . When in the water they often leap out of it four or five ...
... fins , and are not used for flight . In- deed , they use their fins as oars . Incredible numbers of them are found in the South Sea islands . Falkland Island abounds with them . When in the water they often leap out of it four or five ...
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Page 419 - ... 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 to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of...
Page 400 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began. Natures...
Page 300 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Page 125 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Page 267 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 247 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
Page 149 - In the centre of this grove there stood an oak, which, though shapely and tall on the whole, bulged out into a large excrescence about the middle of the stem. On this a pair of ravens had fixed their residence for such a series of years, that the oak was distinguished by the title of the Raven Tree.
Page 449 - Ye insects flutt'ring on the gale, In mutual concourse rise ; Crop the gay rose's vermeil bloom, And waft its spoils, a sweet perfume, In incense to the skies.