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The ancient life-history of the earth, a comprehensive outline of ... - Page 244
by Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1877
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Transactions of the Geological Society

Geological Society of London - Geology - 1824 - 660 pages
...(since, in addition to these circumstances, its respiration must have required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 34

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1826 - 644 pages
...(since, in addition to these circumstances, its respiration most bave required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach ?'...
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A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and ...

Andrew Ure - Bible and geology - 1829 - 704 pages
...frequent access of air, that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish...have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea- weed, and raising its nostrils, like the alligator, to a level with the surface, may...
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Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 3

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1830 - 612 pages
...(since, in addition to these circumstances, its respiration must have required frequent access of air), that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within reach ? It may,...
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Southern Review, Volume 8

1831 - 548 pages
...frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like : the swan, and, occasionally, darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach." The Quarterly reviewer ot 1826, thinks that it must have very closely resembled the lestudo ferox,...
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The Southern Review, Volume 8

Southern States - 1832 - 542 pages
...(since, in addition to these circumstances, its respiration must have requited frequent acress of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the •wan, and, occasionally, darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach."...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 56

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 610 pages
...frequent access of air,) that it swam upon, or near the surface ; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish...have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 56

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...(since, in addition to these circumstances, its respiration must have required frequent access of air,) that it swam upon, or near the surface ; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach? It...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 55-56

English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...(since, in addition to these circumstances, its respiration must have required frequent access of air,) that it swam upon, or near the surface; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 82

1848 - 620 pages
...respiration mast have required frequent access of air), that it swam upon or near the surface, arching hack its long neck like a swan, and occasionally darting...have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed 'among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth,...
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