New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... animal the opercules and other remnants of a shell - fish , common on the shore . I was not aware , till then , that mamiferous animals of this description would eat shell - fish , and particularly such whose shell is so hard ; nor , I ...
... animal the opercules and other remnants of a shell - fish , common on the shore . I was not aware , till then , that mamiferous animals of this description would eat shell - fish , and particularly such whose shell is so hard ; nor , I ...
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... animals passed to the right , before we had gone many yards , and ran toward a close thicket , lining the stream . We had only a momentary view , but , though considerably larger , they seemed something of the hog species . The na ...
... animals passed to the right , before we had gone many yards , and ran toward a close thicket , lining the stream . We had only a momentary view , but , though considerably larger , they seemed something of the hog species . The na ...
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... animals which are found in the neighbourhood of the strait . The celebrated naturalist , M. de Buffon , is of opinion , that the lama only inhabits the coldest regions of the Cordilleras of the Audes ; but this supposition cannot be ...
... animals which are found in the neighbourhood of the strait . The celebrated naturalist , M. de Buffon , is of opinion , that the lama only inhabits the coldest regions of the Cordilleras of the Audes ; but this supposition cannot be ...
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taining a particular Account of the Icebergs and other Phenomena which | |
Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Henderick Portenger | 1 |
Travels of M Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia | 1 |
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