The Wonders of Nature and Art: Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World; Whether Relating to Its Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Productions, Or to the Manufactures, Buildings and Inventions of Its Inhabitants, Compiled from Historical and Geographical Works of Established Celebrity, and Illustrated with the Discoveries of Modern Travellers, Volume 5J. Walker, 1803 - Civilization |
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... short head , and a short neck ; a long proboscis , snout , or trunk , hanging down almost to the ground ; a little narrow mouth , with two long tusks proceed . ing from the upper jaw , one on each side of the proboscis ; besides four ...
... short head , and a short neck ; a long proboscis , snout , or trunk , hanging down almost to the ground ; a little narrow mouth , with two long tusks proceed . ing from the upper jaw , one on each side of the proboscis ; besides four ...
Page 46
... short turns it round every way with surprising agility . By this member he takes in his meat and drink , and conveys them to his mouth ; by this he takes up a vast weight , levels trees , and makes use of it as a hand upon all occasions ...
... short turns it round every way with surprising agility . By this member he takes in his meat and drink , and conveys them to his mouth ; by this he takes up a vast weight , levels trees , and makes use of it as a hand upon all occasions ...
Page 47
... short , and round , ( not thin and flat , as in an ox ) and has a smooth surface . As to the tusks of the elephant , which are what we call ivory , the male has larger than the female , some of them being seven or eight feet long , and ...
... short , and round , ( not thin and flat , as in an ox ) and has a smooth surface . As to the tusks of the elephant , which are what we call ivory , the male has larger than the female , some of them being seven or eight feet long , and ...
Page 52
... short , six or eight are commonly employed , for the conve- nience of being more readily put round his legs ; and they are made fast by another cord , which is passed a few turns perpendicularly between his legs , where the folds of the ...
... short , six or eight are commonly employed , for the conve- nience of being more readily put round his legs ; and they are made fast by another cord , which is passed a few turns perpendicularly between his legs , where the folds of the ...
Page 64
... short and surrounded with two large folds of skin ; and at the juncture of the shoulders there is another fold of skin , which descends upon the fore legs . Be- tween the body and crupper there is a similar fold , which descends upon ...
... short and surrounded with two large folds of skin ; and at the juncture of the shoulders there is another fold of skin , which descends upon the fore legs . Be- tween the body and crupper there is a similar fold , which descends upon ...
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Page 200 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 263 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Page 207 - Many curious and striking particulars are related of the great devastations committed by this powerful community, which construct roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the nest, and leading to every object of plunder within their reach. Though the mischiefs they commit are very great, such is the economy of nature, that...
Page 177 - ... at ten feet from the well. Grooves of the like depth, or height, and four feet diftant from each other at the outer part of the outer circle, are carried...
Page 28 - In winter the Gymnosophists enjoy the benefit of the sun's rays in the open air ; and in summer, when the heat becomes excessive, they pass their time in cool and moist places, under large trees ; which, according to the accounts of Nearchus, cover a circumference of five acres, and extend their branches so far, that ten thousand men may easily find shelter under them.
Page 74 - In general he was not voracious, but never appeared satiated with grasshoppers ; and passed the whole night, while the hot season lasted, in prowling for them : when a grasshopper, or any insect, alighted within his reach, his eyes, which he fixed on his prey, glowed with uncommon fire ; and, having drawn himself back to spring on it with greater force, he seized the victim with both his fore-paws, but held it in one of them while he devoured it.
Page 50 - Again, a painter was desirous of drawing the elephant kept in the menagerie at Versailles in an uncommon attitude, which was that of holding his trunk raised up in the air, with his mouth open. The painter's boy, in order to keep the animal in this posture, threw fruit into his mouth ; but as he...
Page 48 - At length he was seized with one of his periodical fits of rage, broke from his fetters, and, running through the market, put the crowd to flight, and among others this woman, who in her haste forgot a little child she had brought with her. The animal...
Page 251 - ... in leaves and cloth, and others tearing to pieces all the cloth which had belonged to her. In another houfe hard by, the men of the village, with a great many others from the neighbouring towns, were fitting drinking foura and fmoaking tobacco.
Page 263 - Europe, after the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope ; the...