American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... native of the East . All the species of Salix are of the tree kind , very hardy , remarkably fast grow- ers , and several of them attaining a con- siderable stature , when permitted to run up to standards . They are usually of the ...
... native of the East . All the species of Salix are of the tree kind , very hardy , remarkably fast grow- ers , and several of them attaining a con- siderable stature , when permitted to run up to standards . They are usually of the ...
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... native of the woods of Guiana . SALMO , the salmon , in natural history , a genus of fishes of the order of Abdomi- nales . Generic character : head smooth , compressed ; tongue white and cartilagi- nous ; teeth in the jaws and on the ...
... native of the woods of Guiana . SALMO , the salmon , in natural history , a genus of fishes of the order of Abdomi- nales . Generic character : head smooth , compressed ; tongue white and cartilagi- nous ; teeth in the jaws and on the ...
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... native in much greater quantity than any other neutral salt . The waters of the ocean owe their saltness to it : it is found in a number of mineral springs , and it forms immense strata in the bowels of the earth , or rising on the ...
... native in much greater quantity than any other neutral salt . The waters of the ocean owe their saltness to it : it is found in a number of mineral springs , and it forms immense strata in the bowels of the earth , or rising on the ...
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... native fossil , though too often confounded with the common factitious red arsenic , and with the red matter formed by melting the common yellow orpiment . It is a pure substance , of a very even and regular structure , is throughout of ...
... native fossil , though too often confounded with the common factitious red arsenic , and with the red matter formed by melting the common yellow orpiment . It is a pure substance , of a very even and regular structure , is throughout of ...
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... native of many parts of India . In the Circar mountains , where it is wild , it is of little value , as it is gene- rally of a small stature . On the Malabar coast it is very large , and the wood of the best kind . The difference of ...
... native of many parts of India . In the Circar mountains , where it is wild , it is of little value , as it is gene- rally of a small stature . On the Malabar coast it is very large , and the wood of the best kind . The difference of ...
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