The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... March or April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the under- woods , woods , and ...
... March or April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the under- woods , woods , and ...
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... March , before the bark would run . In old times the Holt was estimated to be eighteen miles computed measure from water - carriage - viz . , from the town of Chertsey , on the Thames ; but now it is not half that distance , since the ...
... March , before the bark would run . In old times the Holt was estimated to be eighteen miles computed measure from water - carriage - viz . , from the town of Chertsey , on the Thames ; but now it is not half that distance , since the ...
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... march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . Three grossbeaks ( Loxia ...
... march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . Three grossbeaks ( Loxia ...
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... March 12th , 1768 . IF some curious gentleman would procure the head of a fallow - deer , and have it dissected , he would find it furnished with two spiracula , or breathing places , besides the nostrils ; probably analogous to the ...
... March 12th , 1768 . IF some curious gentleman would procure the head of a fallow - deer , and have it dissected , he would find it furnished with two spiracula , or breathing places , besides the nostrils ; probably analogous to the ...
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... ” " Alcmeon does not advance what is true , when he avers that goats breathe through their ears . " - History of Animals . Book I. , chap . xi . LETTER XV . SELBORNE , March 30th , 1768 . NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 41.
... ” " Alcmeon does not advance what is true , when he avers that goats breathe through their ears . " - History of Animals . Book I. , chap . xi . LETTER XV . SELBORNE , March 30th , 1768 . NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 41.
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