The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... covered with small scales , and are of a bluish tinge , with a silvery cast on the abdomen : the pectoral fins are brown , and of a moderate size : the ventral rather small , and of a similar colour : the lateral line is strait , and ...
... covered with small scales , and are of a bluish tinge , with a silvery cast on the abdomen : the pectoral fins are brown , and of a moderate size : the ventral rather small , and of a similar colour : the lateral line is strait , and ...
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... covered with a tile , gave occasion to Callimachus to invent the Corinthian capital in architecture . 2. The thistle - leaved acan- thus was found by Sparrman at the Cape of Good Hope , and has many leaves , proceed- ing immediately ...
... covered with a tile , gave occasion to Callimachus to invent the Corinthian capital in architecture . 2. The thistle - leaved acan- thus was found by Sparrman at the Cape of Good Hope , and has many leaves , proceed- ing immediately ...
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... covered with very minute , rough , and warted scales , differing in size alone from those on the other part of the animal . The dubius mea- sures only about three feet in length . A specimen is to be seen in the British Mu- seum . Its ...
... covered with very minute , rough , and warted scales , differing in size alone from those on the other part of the animal . The dubius mea- sures only about three feet in length . A specimen is to be seen in the British Mu- seum . Its ...
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... covered them ad- hered firmly , and upon being removed , pre- sented to view only irregular masses of a soft , ductile , greyish - white matter , appa- rently intermediate between fat and wax : the bones were enveloped in this , and ...
... covered them ad- hered firmly , and upon being removed , pre- sented to view only irregular masses of a soft , ductile , greyish - white matter , appa- rently intermediate between fat and wax : the bones were enveloped in this , and ...
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... covering and contents , and the several weights annexed to it , is of less specific gravity than that of the air in ... covering be heated and consequently dilated to such a degree , as that the excess of the weight of an equal bulk of ...
... covering and contents , and the several weights annexed to it , is of less specific gravity than that of the air in ... covering be heated and consequently dilated to such a degree , as that the excess of the weight of an equal bulk of ...
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