The Book of Nature, Svazek 1Wells and Lilly, 1826 |
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Strana 1
... bird's eye view , as it were , of a picturesque and spread- ing landscape from some commanding eminence ; and , without having laboured in the details of arranging the ground , of cultivating the soil , of planting the woods , of ...
... bird's eye view , as it were , of a picturesque and spread- ing landscape from some commanding eminence ; and , without having laboured in the details of arranging the ground , of cultivating the soil , of planting the woods , of ...
Strana 117
... bird's - eye - view of the general phænomena it is capable of assuming , and the general changes it is necessarily sustaining . From the qualities I have placed before you , of passivity , cohesibility , divisibility , and attractions ...
... bird's - eye - view of the general phænomena it is capable of assuming , and the general changes it is necessarily sustaining . From the qualities I have placed before you , of passivity , cohesibility , divisibility , and attractions ...
Strana 133
... birds , and birds - nests ; preserving them from decay , by defending them from the action of the air . The clay and sand sometimes con- tain petrified wood ; and in many parts are found 134 the skeletons of quadrupeds , even of the ...
... birds , and birds - nests ; preserving them from decay , by defending them from the action of the air . The clay and sand sometimes con- tain petrified wood ; and in many parts are found 134 the skeletons of quadrupeds , even of the ...
Strana 142
... birds or other animals that pass over them . In several parts , observes M. Cuvier , these proceed with a frightful rapidity , overwhelming forests , houses , and culti- vated fields in their irresistible progress . Those on the coast ...
... birds or other animals that pass over them . In several parts , observes M. Cuvier , these proceed with a frightful rapidity , overwhelming forests , houses , and culti- vated fields in their irresistible progress . Those on the coast ...
Strana 203
... Birds next alight on the new - formed rock , and sow , with interest , the seeds of the berries , or the eggs of the worms and insects on which they have fed , and which pass through them without in- jury ; and an occasional swell of ...
... Birds next alight on the new - formed rock , and sow , with interest , the seeds of the berries , or the eggs of the worms and insects on which they have fed , and which pass through them without in- jury ; and an occasional swell of ...
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