A Modern System of Natural History: Containing Accurate Descriptions, and Faithful Histories, of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals. Together with Their Properties, and Various Uses in Medicine, Mechanics,manufactures, &c, Band 11F. Newbery, the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, Ludgate-Street, 1776 |
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Seite 55 - They sustain the want of food in a surprising manner. One of them brought from the Indies lived nine months without any other food than what it received from licking a piece of earth, on which it was brought over...
Seite 168 - Remove the hive from which you would take the wax and honey into a room, into which admit but little light, that it may at firft appear to the bees, as if it was late in the evening. Gently invert the hive, placing it between the frames of a chair, or other...
Seite 169 - Repeat the ftrokes rather quick than ftrong round the hive, till all the bees are got out of it, which in general will be in about five minutes. It is to be obferved, that the fuller the hive is of bees, the fooner they will have left it. As foon as a number of them have got into the empty hive, it...
Seite 6 - It is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy to man. The body of waters deluge him with rains, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations. The air rushes in storms, prepares the tempest, or lights up the volcano ; but the earth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of man, spreads his walks with flowers, and his table with plenty ; returns with...
Seite 33 - The animal had twenty-seven cutting teeth in the upper jaw, and fifteen in the lower, with several void spaces between them: they were thick at the bottom, and sharp at the point. being all of different sizes, except ten large hooked ones, six of which were in the lower jaw, and four in the upper. The mouth was fifteen inches in length and eight and a half in breadth, where broadest.
Seite 63 - ... of the body changes into a variety of beautiful hues. Wherever the light comes upon the body, it is of a tawny brown; but that part of the skin on which the sun does not shine, changes into several brighter colours, pale yellow, or...
Seite 24 - I rescued it, pulled out one eye, and hurt it so, that notwithstanding its living a twelvemonth, it never enjoyed itself, and had a difficulty of taking its food, missing the mark for want of its eye. Before that accident, it had all the appearance of perfect health.
Seite 160 - SAND, in natural history, a genus of fossils, the characters of which are, that they are found in minute concretions; forming together a kind of powder, the genuine particles of which are all of a. tendency to one determinate shape, and appear regular, though more or less complete concretions; not to be dissolved or disunited by water...
Seite 170 - Itand, and giving the hive in which the bees are a fudden (hake, at the fame time ftriking it pretty forcibly, the bees will be fhaken on the cloth. Put their own hive over them immediately, raifed...
Seite 38 - ... continually oppressed by a parching thirst, that keeps them in the vicinity of great rivers, whither they descend to drink very frequently. It is upon these occasions that they are seized by the crocodile ; and they die not unrevenged. The instant they are seized upon, they turn with the greatest agility, and force their claws into the crocodile's eyes, while he plunges with his fierce antagonist into the river. There they continue to struggle for some time, till at last the tiger is drowned....