Who Were the First Builders?T. Nelson and Sons, 1874 - 72 стор. |
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African AMERICAN FOREST American travel animal kingdom bait bank basket BEAVER-HOUSE BEAVER'S ENEMIES BEAVER'S HAUNT beavers birch birds branches build a dam built castor castoreum cavity centre chambers clay colony colour constructed curious devours discovers diving eaves eggs erect evil Father favourite feet in height female FOND OF WATER formed Freddy Frederick glutton HOUSE-MARTIN hunter IDLER inches INDUSTRIOUS BUILDERS ingenuity inhabitants insects instinct interior king and queen labours LILLIPUTIAN PALACE little builder lodge LONGFELLOW'S Hiawatha Lord martin never nurseries Oh yes papa pillars plaster pounce Pray Cambridge precaution of leaving quadruped rear remarkable rendered rolling river round sagacity side SIR HUMPHRY DAVY Smeathman SOCIAL RACE solid stream structure raised subterranean galleries swallow SWALLOW'S NEST swims tail Tallegalla task TE DEUM LAUDAMUS teeth TERMITE MOUND thick tion trap trappers tree trunk Turkey turrets walls White Ants wings winter wolverene wonderful wood рара
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Сторінка 7 - We now entered a most glorious country — not indeed grandly picturesque, but rich and beautiful : a country of rolling hills and fertile valleys, of lakes and streams, groves of birch and aspen, and miniature prairies ; a land of a kindly soil, and full of promise to the settler to come in future years, when an enlightened policy shall open out the wealth now uncared for or unknown.
Сторінка 65 - ... perpetually rendered void, and they set their wits to work, in what manner to secure them from harm. " The method adopted was, to place a small round basket under the eaves, at the place where the nest had been, as a protection from injury below ; but it was attended with the inconvenience that the handle prevented it from being pressed into contact with the stone, while the breadth of the basket was so great as to cause the wet dripping from the eaves to fall within the cavity. It was to obviate...
Сторінка 61 - As this bird often builds against a perpendicular wall without any projecting ledge under, it requires its utmost efforts to get the first foundation firmly fixed, so that it may safely carry the superstructure. On this occasion the bird not only clings with its claws, but partly supports itself by strongly inclining...
Сторінка 60 - Te Deum laudamus. WE praise thee, O God ; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting.
Сторінка 61 - On this occasion the bird not only clings with its claws, but partly supports itself by strongly inclining its tail against the wall, making that a fulcrum ; and thus steadied, it works and plasters the materials into the face of the brick or stone. But then, that this work may not, while it is soft and green, pull itself down by its own weight, the provident architect has prudence and forbearance enough not to advance her work too fast ; but by building only in the morning, and by dedicating the...
Сторінка 61 - May, if the weather be fine, the martin begins to think in earnest of providing a mansion for its family. The crust or shell of this nest seems to be formed of such dirt or loam as comes most readily to hand, and is tempered and wrought together with little bits of broken straws to render it tough and tenacious. As this bird often builds against a perpendicular wall without any projecting ledge under, it requires its utmost efforts to get the first foundation...
Сторінка 38 - The fur-hunter's greatest enemy is the North American glutton, or, as he is commonly called, the wolverine or carcajou. This curious animal is rather larger than an English fox, with a long body, stoutly and compactly made, mounted on exceedingly short legs of great strength. His broad feet are armed with powerful claws, and his track in the snow is as large as the print of a man's fist. The shape of his head, and his hairy coat, give him very much the appearance of a shaggy brown dog. During the...
Сторінка 27 - The lodges are nearly circular in form, and much resemble the well-known snow-houses of the Esquimaux, being domed, and about half as high as they are wide, the average height being three feet, and the diameter six or seven feet. These are the interior dimensions, the exterior measurement being much greater, on account of the great thickness of the walls, which are continually strengthened with mud and branches, so that, during the severe frosts, they are nearly as hard as solid stone.
Сторінка 20 - So far are the beavers from driving stakes into the ground when building their houses, that they lay most of the wood crosswise, and nearly horizontal, and without any other order than that of leaving a hollow or cavity in the middle. When any unnecessary branches project inward they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It...
Сторінка 20 - ... if they can be procured. The mud is always taken from the edge of the bank, or the bottom of the creek or pond near the door of the house; and though...