The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization, Том 11

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G. B. Whittaker, 1830
 

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Стр. 52 - ... skin. The other shoulder-blade was found at some distance. The head was covered with a dry skin, one of the ears, in high preservation, was furnished with a tuft of hair, and the pupil of the eye was still discernible. The brain was found in the cranium, but in a state of desiccation. The under lip had been torn, and the upper one being utterly destroyed, left the molars visible. The neck was furnished with a long mane.
Стр. 39 - Revolution has succeeded revolution — races have been successively annihilated to give place to others. Other revolutions may yet succeed, and man, the self-styled lord of the creation, be swept from the surface of the earth, to give place to beings as much superior to him as he is to the most elevated of the brutes.
Стр. 53 - ... mane ; and the skin, generally, was covered with black hairs and a reddish sort of wool. Of the quantity of hair and bristles that had been on the body, some idea may be formed from the fact, that thirty pounds of them were gathered from the ground, where the dogs, in eating the flesh, had dropt them. The tusks were more than nine feet long, and the head, without the tusks, weighed more than four hundred pounds. Altogether, the skeleton of this mammoth was about the size of a large elephant's....
Стр. 376 - Conybeare, by whom the first scientific investigation of this saurian was made, that, as it breathed air, and had frequent need of respiration, it generally swam upon or near the surface of the water, arching back its long neck like the swan, and plunging it downwards at the fishes that passed within its reach.
Стр. 333 - It is certain that this schist is the half, or nearly so, of the skeleton of a man /that the substance even of the bones, and, what...
Стр. 52 - Neva, in the midst of the fragments of ice, a shapeless mass of something, the nature of which he could not conjecture. The next year he observed that this mass was a little more disengaged. Towards the end of the following summer, the entire side of the animal and one of the tusks became distinctly...
Стр. 343 - One of them has the muzzle of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and breast of a lizard, the fins or paddles of a whale, but four instead of two, and the back or vertebrae of a fish.
Стр. 66 - Man above' seized his thunder and killed them all, with the exception of the largest of Ahe males, who, presenting his head to the thunderbolts, shook them off as they fell; but, being wounded in the side, he betook himself to flight towards the great lakes, where he still resides at the present day.
Стр. 52 - ... conjecture. The next year, he observed that this mass was a little more disengaged. Towards the end of the following summer the entire side of the animal, and one of the tusks, became distinctly visible. In the fifth year the ice being melted earlier than usual, this enormous mass was cast upon the coast, upon a bank of sand. The fisherman possessed himself of the tusks, which he sold for fifty rubles. Two years after, Mr. Adams, associate of the academy of St. Petersburgh...
Стр. 125 - ... den, and of accumulating around it the bones of all kinds of animals, is thus described by Busbequius, where he is speaking of the Turkish mode of burial in Anatolia, and their custom of laying large stones upon their graves to protect them from the hyaenas. M Hyaena regionibus iis satis frequens; sepulchra suffodit, extrahitque cadavera, portatque ad suam speluncam; juxta quam videre est ingentem cumulum ossium humanorum ' veterinariorum' * et reliquorum omne genus animalium.

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