British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 12Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... compresses the paper so as to prevent its shifting . To this instrument there is a brass rule of two feet long , with ends turned up at right angles , in which are slits , or sights , to direct the surveyor's eye SURVEYING .
... compresses the paper so as to prevent its shifting . To this instrument there is a brass rule of two feet long , with ends turned up at right angles , in which are slits , or sights , to direct the surveyor's eye SURVEYING .
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... feet , as in familiar measure- ment . Thus , in fig . 10. A represents the plain - table , placed in the centre of the field BCDE : f g is the rule with sights : the figures written on the sides of the lines proceeding to the four ...
... feet , as in familiar measure- ment . Thus , in fig . 10. A represents the plain - table , placed in the centre of the field BCDE : f g is the rule with sights : the figures written on the sides of the lines proceeding to the four ...
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... feet cloven . These animals are allied by their teeth to the carnivo- rous quadrupeds , and by their cloven feet to the ruminating ones . They feed almost indifferently upon animal and vegetable substances , devouring with avidity what ...
... feet cloven . These animals are allied by their teeth to the carnivo- rous quadrupeds , and by their cloven feet to the ruminating ones . They feed almost indifferently upon animal and vegetable substances , devouring with avidity what ...
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... feet , before it devours them , with great dexterity . The common hog is reported , on good au- thority , to attack and eat the rattlesnake with the same impunity as the pecari . For the baby - roussa , see Mammalia , Plate XX . fig . 2 ...
... feet , before it devours them , with great dexterity . The common hog is reported , on good au- thority , to attack and eat the rattlesnake with the same impunity as the pecari . For the baby - roussa , see Mammalia , Plate XX . fig . 2 ...
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... the islands of Cuba , Jamaica , and His- paniola ; in these islands the tree grows to a very large size , so as to cut into planks of six feet breadth : those on the SYN maphrodites and florets of no sex : and 4. SWE ...
... the islands of Cuba , Jamaica , and His- paniola ; in these islands the tree grows to a very large size , so as to cut into planks of six feet breadth : those on the SYN maphrodites and florets of no sex : and 4. SWE ...
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