A companion to the Liverpool museum1808 - 80 pages |
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... inhabits South America . This is the leaft of all known Birds . 9. Leaft H. female and neft . 10. VIOLET - EARED H. ( Trochilus Auritus ) inhabits Brazil and Guiana . 11. Little H. ( Trochilus Exilis ) inhabits Guiana . 12. GREEN ...
... inhabits South America . This is the leaft of all known Birds . 9. Leaft H. female and neft . 10. VIOLET - EARED H. ( Trochilus Auritus ) inhabits Brazil and Guiana . 11. Little H. ( Trochilus Exilis ) inhabits Guiana . 12. GREEN ...
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... Inhabits South America , goes out in the night , and fleeps du- ring the day ; when irritated , it feizes on a ftick or other object with its fore claws , and fights fitting on his hind legs ; the extre- mity of the tail is naked and ...
... Inhabits South America , goes out in the night , and fleeps du- ring the day ; when irritated , it feizes on a ftick or other object with its fore claws , and fights fitting on his hind legs ; the extre- mity of the tail is naked and ...
Page 25
... inhabits fome fresh water lakes , as that of Baiket , Oron , & e . Seals may often be obferved fleeping on the rocks , near the coaft ; but when approached too near , they fuddenly precipitate themselves into the water . Sometimes they ...
... inhabits fome fresh water lakes , as that of Baiket , Oron , & e . Seals may often be obferved fleeping on the rocks , near the coaft ; but when approached too near , they fuddenly precipitate themselves into the water . Sometimes they ...
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... inhabits Africa , Barbary , and the remoteft parts of Guinea ; is extremely fierce , and attacks every living creature without diftinction , but happily prefers the flesh of brutes to that , of mankind . The ancients were well ...
... inhabits Africa , Barbary , and the remoteft parts of Guinea ; is extremely fierce , and attacks every living creature without diftinction , but happily prefers the flesh of brutes to that , of mankind . The ancients were well ...
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... inhabits Brazil and Guiana , runs up trees very nimbly , eats like a dog , and holds its food between its fore legs like a bear . It is faid to gnaw its own tail . 18. A. - The PINE MARTIN , Mustela Martes , Lin . ) Inhabits Europe ...
... inhabits Brazil and Guiana , runs up trees very nimbly , eats like a dog , and holds its food between its fore legs like a bear . It is faid to gnaw its own tail . 18. A. - The PINE MARTIN , Mustela Martes , Lin . ) Inhabits Europe ...
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Afia Africa alfo almoft ancient animal appearance armour beautiful bird BLACK body Botany Bay Brazil Cafe Captain CHINESE coaft colour Coluber common confifting curious defcribed ditto eggs Europe faid fame fays feathers feeds feems feen feet feldom female feven feveral fhape fhell fhores fhort fide fifh fimilar fingular firft fish fize fmall fome fometimes fpecies fpecimen fpring ftrength ftrong fuppofed furniſhed Glafs Hauberk head Hippocampus Holland Iflands Indian infects Inhabits South America itſelf ivory Kanguroo kind Lacerta largeſt legs Liverpool LIZARD Loxia meaſures moft moſt Motacilla mother of pearl Muſeum native Naturalifts neft obferved occafionally ornamented PAPILIO PARROT pectoral fins perfon Pfittacus piece plumage prefented preferved prey purpoſe Quadrupeds refembling Rhinoceros Ruffia ſkin ſmall SNAKE South America South Wales ſpecies STICCADO Surinam tail Tanagra thefe birds themſelves theſe Theſe birds thofe thoſe trees Trochilus ufed unknown uſed Weft wings wood worn
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Page 69 - 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, Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, 240 From thee to nothing.
Page i - O Nature, how in every charm supreme ! Whose votaries feast on raptures ever new ! O for the voice and fire of seraphim, To sing thy glories with devotion due ! Blest be the day I 'scaped the wrangling crew, From Pyrrho's maze, and Epicurus...
Page 4 - ... the tip of the tongues of the females. From some information we received, relative to the custom of tattowing, we were inclined to think, that it is frequently intended as a sign of mourning on the death of a chief, or any other calamitous event. For we were often told, that such a particular mark was in memory of such a chief, and so of the rest.
Page 1 - The young women would often take the pen out of our hands, and show us that they knew the use of it as well as we did ; at the same time telling us that our pens were not so good as theirs. They looked upon a sheet of written paper, as a piece of cloth striped after...
Page 25 - ... hands of its pursuers : to avoid this, the hunter has recourse to artifice ; and by tickling it with a stick, it gives up its hold, and suffers itself to be taken alive. If no other means of escape be left, it rolls itself up within its covering by drawing in its head and legs, and bringing its tail round them as a band to connect them more forcibly together : in this situation it sometimes escapes by rolling itself over the edge of a precipice, and generally falls to the bottom unhurt.
Page 34 - ... from the point of the bill to the extremity of the tail. " To add to the singularity of this bird...
Page 81 - Egyptians used instead of glue. The relations then took home the body, and enclosing it in the wooden figure of a man, placed it in the catacombs. Another method of embalming, was injecting turpentine of cedar with a pipe into the body without cutting it; they then salted it for seventy days, and afterwards drew out the pipe, which brought along with it the intestines. The nitre dried up the flesh, leaving nothing but skin and bones. The third way was only by...
Page 56 - ... his powers and attuning his organs; by degrees the sound opens and swells, it bursts with loud and vivid flashes, it flows with smooth volubility, it faints and murmurs, it shakes with rapid and violent articulations; the soft breathings of love and joy are poured from...
Page 25 - ... tail, whilst making its way into the earth, its resistance is so great, that it will sometimes leave it in the hands of its pursuers. To avoid this, the hunter has recourse to artifice...
Page 81 - kept the bodies of their anceftors in houles adorned at a very great expence; and had the pleafure to fee their forefathers, who had been dead many years before they were born, and to obferve all their features as well as if they were living. But it do.es not appear that any bodies were ever difcovered embalmed in this manner.