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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... thicker towards the extremities . This is the largest of all the flying squir rels , and is eighteen inches long , exclu- sively of the tail . For the Barbary squir rel and the black squirrel , see Mammalia , Plate XVIII , fig . 2. and ...
... thicker towards the extremities . This is the largest of all the flying squir rels , and is eighteen inches long , exclu- sively of the tail . For the Barbary squir rel and the black squirrel , see Mammalia , Plate XVIII , fig . 2. and ...
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... thick , filiform , the first joint longer . There are about twenty species . SCOLOPAX , the curlew , in natural his- tory , a genus of birds of the order Gralla . Generic character : the bill long and in- curvated ; face covered with ...
... thick , filiform , the first joint longer . There are about twenty species . SCOLOPAX , the curlew , in natural his- tory , a genus of birds of the order Gralla . Generic character : the bill long and in- curvated ; face covered with ...
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... thick , com- pressed , a little hooked ; nostrils linear , oblique ; feet four - toed , cleft . The only species , the umbretta , or tufted umbre , is about as large as a crow , and twenty inches in length ; its bill three inches and a ...
... thick , com- pressed , a little hooked ; nostrils linear , oblique ; feet four - toed , cleft . The only species , the umbretta , or tufted umbre , is about as large as a crow , and twenty inches in length ; its bill three inches and a ...
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... thick crust , in a few days , on the sides and bottoms of the pans , which they are forced to be at the pains of taking off once in a week , or ten days , otherwise the pans burn away , and are destroyed . SCREW , one of the five ...
... thick crust , in a few days , on the sides and bottoms of the pans , which they are forced to be at the pains of taking off once in a week , or ten days , otherwise the pans burn away , and are destroyed . SCREW , one of the five ...
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... thick , has a softness and delicacy of execution truly admirable ; it seems real life and flesh . Art must have been at a high pitch when this monument was executed : for , if the head wants what is called style , that is to say , the ...
... thick , has a softness and delicacy of execution truly admirable ; it seems real life and flesh . Art must have been at a high pitch when this monument was executed : for , if the head wants what is called style , that is to say , the ...
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Page 1 - I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground, with my head to the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation.
Page 5 - Of the nature of those changes which take place in the Digestion of Food. Of the Chemical Principles of the process of Tanning Leather; and of the objects that must particularly be had in view in attempts to improve that most useful art. Of the Chemical Principles of the art of making Soap ; of the art of Bleaching; of the art of Dyeing; and in general of all the Mechanical Arts, as they apply to the various branches of manufacture.
Page 25 - Hence too it follows, that the infamous and unchristian practice of withholding baptism from negro servants, lest they should thereby gain their liberty, is totally without foundation, as well as without excuse. The l«w of England acts upon general and extensive principles : it gives liberty, rightly understood, that is, protection, to a Jew, a Turk, or a Heathen...
Page 11 - It is very probable that the great stratum called the milky way, is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness.
Page 3 - The distance between two points on the surface of a sphere is the length of the minor arc of a great circle between them.
Page 19 - To this head may also be referred the practice of what is called a set-off: whereby the defendant acknowledges the justice of the plaintiff's demand on the one hand, but on the other sets up a demand of his own, to counterbalance that of the plaintiff, either in the whole or in part...