The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ...R.N. Rose, 1821 - Natural history |
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... feet , we meet again with all the plants of the plains . We find where high chains of the primary mountains skirt the plains , that all the plants of the plain are found at the bottom , and even up their sides . If we pass over the ...
... feet , we meet again with all the plants of the plains . We find where high chains of the primary mountains skirt the plains , that all the plants of the plain are found at the bottom , and even up their sides . If we pass over the ...
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... feet in circumference , measured round the prin- cipal stems ; the overhanging branches , not yet struck down , cover a much larger space . The chief trunks of this single tree ( which in size greatly exceed our English elms and oaks ) ...
... feet in circumference , measured round the prin- cipal stems ; the overhanging branches , not yet struck down , cover a much larger space . The chief trunks of this single tree ( which in size greatly exceed our English elms and oaks ) ...
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... feet high , with large palmated or hand - shaped leaves . Of this there is a number of varieties ; as the common fig , a large oblong , dark purplish- blue fruit , which ripens in August either on standards or walls , and the trees ...
... feet high , with large palmated or hand - shaped leaves . Of this there is a number of varieties ; as the common fig , a large oblong , dark purplish- blue fruit , which ripens in August either on standards or walls , and the trees ...
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... feet distance from each other , or they may at once be planted where they are to remain , observing , that if they are designed for walls or espaliers , they may be headed to six or eight inches in March , the more effectually to force ...
... feet distance from each other , or they may at once be planted where they are to remain , observing , that if they are designed for walls or espaliers , they may be headed to six or eight inches in March , the more effectually to force ...
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... feet high ; the lower part of the stalk is often as large as a man's thigh , dimi- nishing gradually to the top , where the leaves come out on every side these are often eight feet long , and from two to three broad , with a strong ...
... feet high ; the lower part of the stalk is often as large as a man's thigh , dimi- nishing gradually to the top , where the leaves come out on every side these are often eight feet long , and from two to three broad , with a strong ...
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Page 46 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 634 - Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song; And, missing thee, I walk unseen...
Page 637 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then brisk alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is — Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 632 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 635 - By shorter flight to the east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple arid gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. -^Now came still evening. on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests I Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale...
Page 545 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for, though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Page 635 - I led her blushing like the Morn ; all Heaven, And happy constellations, on that hour Shed their selectest influence ; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill ; Joyous the birds ; fresh gales and gentle airs Whispered it to the woods, and from their -wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub, Disporting, till the amorous bird of night Sung spousal, and bid haste the evening star On his hill top to light the bridal lamp.
Page 545 - ... way. I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices; for, as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity ; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only " the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Page 44 - ... and neatly lined in the bottom and sides with grass; the whole is then covered with leaves, and heavy stones laid upon them: in this state it undergoes a second fermentation, and becomes sour, after which it will...
Page 544 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but, as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat, in the middle of the day ; and though I continued there till the 13th of November, yet the work remained unfinished.