The Youth's Companion: Or An Historical Dictionary; Consisting of Articles Selected Chiefly from Natural and Civil History, Geography, Astronomy, Zoology, Botany and Mineralogy; Arranged in Alphabetical OrderWebsters and Skinners, 1813 - 424 páginas |
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... workmanship displayed in the structure of the meanest animal that breathes , or even of the most unregarded vegetable that grows , infinitely surpasses all the works of men . PREFATORY REMARKS . A multitude of things which are here.
... workmanship displayed in the structure of the meanest animal that breathes , or even of the most unregarded vegetable that grows , infinitely surpasses all the works of men . PREFATORY REMARKS . A multitude of things which are here.
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... grows on the shores of the Antilles islands . According to Labat and du Tetre , it grows to such a prodigious size , that out of one log of it they make a boat capable of carry- ing so many as forty men . This tree is also the only one ...
... grows on the shores of the Antilles islands . According to Labat and du Tetre , it grows to such a prodigious size , that out of one log of it they make a boat capable of carry- ing so many as forty men . This tree is also the only one ...
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... grow from twenty to twenty - three feet in length ; their body is as large as that of a horse , and nearly resembles a lizard . Their scales , when the animal is alive , are impenetrable even to a rifle ball , except about their head ...
... grow from twenty to twenty - three feet in length ; their body is as large as that of a horse , and nearly resembles a lizard . Their scales , when the animal is alive , are impenetrable even to a rifle ball , except about their head ...
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... grow a great number of oak trees ; all the branches whereof , able to bear the weight , are , in the proper season of the year , loaded with eagles ' nests . Their instinctive wisdom has taught them to choose this place , as it is ...
... grow a great number of oak trees ; all the branches whereof , able to bear the weight , are , in the proper season of the year , loaded with eagles ' nests . Their instinctive wisdom has taught them to choose this place , as it is ...
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... grows to the height and size of large trees . The trunk is hollow , and divid- ed at certain spaces by knots , but is very strong , and capable of sustaining an enormous weight . The bam- boo reeds are used as pipes to convey water ...
... grows to the height and size of large trees . The trunk is hollow , and divid- ed at certain spaces by knots , but is very strong , and capable of sustaining an enormous weight . The bam- boo reeds are used as pipes to convey water ...
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