The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... seems to have been well qualified for the office , recorded the weather journal . The state of the thermometer , barometer , and the variations . of the wind are noted , as well as the quantity of rain which fell . We have daily ...
... seems to have been well qualified for the office , recorded the weather journal . The state of the thermometer , barometer , and the variations . of the wind are noted , as well as the quantity of rain which fell . We have daily ...
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... seems to have seen several centuries , and is probably coeval with the church , and therefore may be deemed an antiquity . The body is short , squat , and thick , and measures twenty - three feet in the girth , supporting a head of ...
... seems to have seen several centuries , and is probably coeval with the church , and therefore may be deemed an antiquity . The body is short , squat , and thick , and measures twenty - three feet in the girth , supporting a head of ...
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... seems composed : thick steams , From land , from flood up - drawn , dimming the day , " Like a dark ceiling stand : " slow through the air Gossamer floats , or , stretch'd from blade to blade , The wavy net - work whitens all the field ...
... seems composed : thick steams , From land , from flood up - drawn , dimming the day , " Like a dark ceiling stand : " slow through the air Gossamer floats , or , stretch'd from blade to blade , The wavy net - work whitens all the field ...
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... seems so far from being calcareous , that it endures extreme heat . Yet , that the freestone still pre- serves somewhat that is analogous to chalk , is plain , from the beeches , which descend as low as those rocks extend , and no ...
... seems so far from being calcareous , that it endures extreme heat . Yet , that the freestone still pre- serves somewhat that is analogous to chalk , is plain , from the beeches , which descend as low as those rocks extend , and no ...
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... seems highly saturated with vegetable and animal manure ; and these may perhaps have been the original site of the town ; while the woods and coverts might extend down to the opposite bank . At each end of the village , which runs from ...
... seems highly saturated with vegetable and animal manure ; and these may perhaps have been the original site of the town ; while the woods and coverts might extend down to the opposite bank . At each end of the village , which runs from ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn beech bees breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus LYON Biblioth male manner March March 26 MARKWICK migration mild naturalist nest never night observed Palais des Arts pheasant plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallows swarm swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees village warm weather WHITE wild wind wings winter woods wren young