The Natural History of Selborne ... With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesTicknor & Fields, 1866 - 430 Seiten |
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... give the mean quantity , but a very intelligent gentleman assures me ( and he speaks from upwards ⚫of forty years ' experience ) that the mean rain of any C place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured it OF SELBORNE . 17.
... give the mean quantity , but a very intelligent gentleman assures me ( and he speaks from upwards ⚫of forty years ' experience ) that the mean rain of any C place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured it OF SELBORNE . 17.
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... gives an area of about sixty - six acres , exclusive of a large irregular arm at the north- east corner , which we did not take into the reckon- ing . On the face of this expanse of waters , and perfectly secure from fowlers , lie all ...
... gives an area of about sixty - six acres , exclusive of a large irregular arm at the north- east corner , which we did not take into the reckon- ing . On the face of this expanse of waters , and perfectly secure from fowlers , lie all ...
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... gives reason to suppose that they do not leave their wild haunts at all , but are secreted amidst the clefts and caverns of these abrupt cliffs . The late severe weather considered , it is not very probable that these birds should have ...
... gives reason to suppose that they do not leave their wild haunts at all , but are secreted amidst the clefts and caverns of these abrupt cliffs . The late severe weather considered , it is not very probable that these birds should have ...
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... give some countenance to the northern opinion ( strange as it is ) of their re- tiring under water . A Swedish naturalist is so much persuaded of that fact , that he talks , in his " Calendar of Flora , " as familiarly of the swallow's ...
... give some countenance to the northern opinion ( strange as it is ) of their re- tiring under water . A Swedish naturalist is so much persuaded of that fact , that he talks , in his " Calendar of Flora , " as familiarly of the swallow's ...
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... gives me great satisfaction to find that you pursue these studies still with such vigour , and are in such forwardness with regard to reptiles and fishes . The reptiles , few as they are , I am not acquainted with , so well as I could ...
... gives me great satisfaction to find that you pursue these studies still with such vigour , and are in such forwardness with regard to reptiles and fishes . The reptiles , few as they are , I am not acquainted with , so well as I could ...
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