Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 4Academy, 1882 - Humanities Vol. 15, "To the University of Leipzig on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of its foundation, from Yale University and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1909." |
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Page 97 - No one dared venture within the line of devastation. The hogs had been penned up in due time, the picking up of the dead and wounded being left for the next morning's employment The Pigeons were constantly coming, and it was past midnight before I perceived a decrease in the number of those that arrived. The uproar continued the whole night; and as I was anxious to know to what distance the sound reached, I sent off...
Page 170 - Investigation of the Figure of the Earth and of the Gravity in different Latitudes.
Page 96 - Many trees two feet in diameter, I observed, were broken off at no great distance from the ground, and the branches of many of the largest and tallest had given way, as if the forest had been swept by a tornado. Everything proved to me that the number of birds resorting to this part of the forest must be immense beyond conception.
Page 96 - It was dangerous to walk under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches, broken down by the weight of the multitudes above, and which in their descent often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves ; while the clothes of those engaged in traversing the woods were completely covered with the excrements of the pigeons.
Page 97 - It was a scene of uproar and confusion. I found it quite useless to speak, or even to shout to those persons who were nearest to me.
Page 96 - The noise which they made, though yet distant, reminded me of a hard gale at sea, passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel. As the birds arrived and passed over me, I...
Page 40 - We obtained these samples of milk from different parts of the country, and at different times of the year.
Page 67 - Both mammals and birds are its prey, and large ones at that; rabbits, squirrels, and skunks among the former, and quail, ducks, partridges, and domestic fowls among the latter, are the chief sufferers. Large hawks, crows, and other owls also are often killed and eaten. Dr. Merriam states: "It feeds on the larger game (hares, grouse, and the like), not forgetting the poultry yard, and seems particularly fond of turkeys, of which it seldom touches more than the head, if there are a plenty about. Indeed,...
Page 148 - England's | Plantation. Or, | a Short and trve | description of the commodities | and discommodities of that Countrey. | — | Written by a reuerend Diuine now | there resident. | — | [Seal.] | — | London, Printed by TC and RC for Michael Sparke, | dwelling at the Signe of the Blew Bible in | Greene Arbor in the little Old Bailey. 1630.
Page 31 - I saw an instance which puts the possibility of the fact beyond all room for doubt. About the year 1760, two men were digging in the Salt marsh, at Cambridge, in Massachusetts, on the bank of the Charles River, about two feet below the surface of the ground, they dug up a Swallow, wholly surrounded and covered with mud. The Swallow was iu a torpid state, but being held in their hands, it revived in about half an hour.