The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 5 |
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... supposed the organs of common feeling , by means of which they are enabled to flutter , after be- ing blinded , without flying against any thing . The whiskers of many animals ap- pear likewise to serve the same purpose of informing ...
... supposed the organs of common feeling , by means of which they are enabled to flutter , after be- ing blinded , without flying against any thing . The whiskers of many animals ap- pear likewise to serve the same purpose of informing ...
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... supposed by Strabo , who saw the fragments of these stones laying around the pyramids , to be the petri- fied remains of the lentils which had been used for food by the workmen . Eratosthenes , Xanthus of Lydia , and Strabo , have all ...
... supposed by Strabo , who saw the fragments of these stones laying around the pyramids , to be the petri- fied remains of the lentils which had been used for food by the workmen . Eratosthenes , Xanthus of Lydia , and Strabo , have all ...
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... supposed by Mr. Parkin- son , it passes through another process , which he considers as fermentative , and becomes bi- tuminous . Wood , thus changed , is called lig- num fossile bituminosum , surturbrand , and Bovey coal . By the ...
... supposed by Mr. Parkin- son , it passes through another process , which he considers as fermentative , and becomes bi- tuminous . Wood , thus changed , is called lig- num fossile bituminosum , surturbrand , and Bovey coal . By the ...
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... supposed it to be of vegetable origin , whilst others have considered it as entirely belonging to the mineral kingdom . But that the Belemnite originally existed in the sea , is evident from its being commonly found with the remains of ...
... supposed it to be of vegetable origin , whilst others have considered it as entirely belonging to the mineral kingdom . But that the Belemnite originally existed in the sea , is evident from its being commonly found with the remains of ...
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... supposed to have belonged to no existing species ; for though the teeth are formed of plates dis- posed parallel to each other , as in the Asiatic , these plates are said to be thinner , and consequently more numerous ; but this ...
... supposed to have belonged to no existing species ; for though the teeth are formed of plates dis- posed parallel to each other , as in the Asiatic , these plates are said to be thinner , and consequently more numerous ; but this ...
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