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... fome Effays on the Indian Animals mentioned by the Antients , obfcured by Fable , & c . Sold by Mr. WHITE , Bookfeller , in Fleet - freet , and Mr. WALTERS , at Charing - Cross . CLASS III . REPTILES . All the works of the ERRAT A.
... fome Effays on the Indian Animals mentioned by the Antients , obfcured by Fable , & c . Sold by Mr. WHITE , Bookfeller , in Fleet - freet , and Mr. WALTERS , at Charing - Cross . CLASS III . REPTILES . All the works of the ERRAT A.
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... animals , he must include them : they form at left one link in the chain of beings , and may therefore be viewed with a degree of pleasure by a philofo phic eye . But notwithstanding the prejudice against this clafs is almost universal ...
... animals , he must include them : they form at left one link in the chain of beings , and may therefore be viewed with a degree of pleasure by a philofo phic eye . But notwithstanding the prejudice against this clafs is almost universal ...
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Thomas Pennant. But many of the animals that form this clafs are of immediate benefit to mankind . The Turtle , or ' Sea - Tortoife , fupplies the torrid zone with a whole- fome and delicious food , as the epicures of our own country can ...
Thomas Pennant. But many of the animals that form this clafs are of immediate benefit to mankind . The Turtle , or ' Sea - Tortoife , fupplies the torrid zone with a whole- fome and delicious food , as the epicures of our own country can ...
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... animal . We therefore find it an ornament at every entertainment , and in every fcene of mirth , both in painting and in sculpture . Virgil adopted this . notion , and has accordingly described it with every beauty both of form and ...
... animal . We therefore find it an ornament at every entertainment , and in every fcene of mirth , both in painting and in sculpture . Virgil adopted this . notion , and has accordingly described it with every beauty both of form and ...
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... eight hundred pounds , the leffer near seven hundred . Doctor Borlafe first published these animals to the world , and discovered them in our feas . B He Size . He describes them as having seven spiny or BRITISH ZOOLOGY. ...
... eight hundred pounds , the leffer near seven hundred . Doctor Borlafe first published these animals to the world , and discovered them in our feas . B He Size . He describes them as having seven spiny or BRITISH ZOOLOGY. ...
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