Sea-side Walks of a Naturalist with His Children |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
Page 5
... surfaces as in other fishes , by means of which nourishment is conveyed into their bodies , till the mouths of the young fish become capable of seizing their prey . " Are not sharks ' teeth very formidable things , " asked Willy , " and ...
... surfaces as in other fishes , by means of which nourishment is conveyed into their bodies , till the mouths of the young fish become capable of seizing their prey . " Are not sharks ' teeth very formidable things , " asked Willy , " and ...
Page 10
... surface is marked with numerous angular spaces . What is it , papa ? " It is an egg- cluster laid by a mollusc , with an elegantly - marked shell . You may often pick up these shells on the shore ; they are very common . Keep the curved ...
... surface is marked with numerous angular spaces . What is it , papa ? " It is an egg- cluster laid by a mollusc , with an elegantly - marked shell . You may often pick up these shells on the shore ; they are very common . Keep the curved ...
Page 12
... surface is divided into a number of transverse rings ; I can count about forty of them . Now remember this division into rings . Each ring is produced at the margin into a short fleshy lobe , armed with a threefold row of stiff hairs ...
... surface is divided into a number of transverse rings ; I can count about forty of them . Now remember this division into rings . Each ring is produced at the margin into a short fleshy lobe , armed with a threefold row of stiff hairs ...
Page 15
... surface is rough with transverse scaly ridges . The word pholas is derived from a Greek word signifying " to be hidden , " in allusion to the custom of the animals to live in holes which they make for themselves in peat , mud , clay ...
... surface is rough with transverse scaly ridges . The word pholas is derived from a Greek word signifying " to be hidden , " in allusion to the custom of the animals to live in holes which they make for themselves in peat , mud , clay ...
Page 16
... surface of certain parts of the animals ; others , that currents of water , set in action by the motions of vibratile cilia , are the agents . Some affirm that the animal secretes an acid which dissolves the substance into which it ...
... surface of certain parts of the animals ; others , that currents of water , set in action by the motions of vibratile cilia , are the agents . Some affirm that the animal secretes an acid which dissolves the substance into which it ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
15 Wood Engravings anemone animal aquarium asked Willy beautiful beautifully coloured bird body British byssus called catch caught cloth gilt coast common Conchology Conway cormorant crab Crown 8vo crustacea curious devour dredge eaten eggs elegantly bound feet FERNS fins fish fishermen Foolscap 8vo foraminifera garfish GROOMBRIDGE & SONS gull head HEIR OF REDCLYFFE holes hydrozoa Illustrated with 15 inches long Jack Jacko Laminaria lesser black-backed gull London look mackerel microscope molluscs mouth mussels naturalist Nottingham Catchfly numerous Wood Engravings oyster papa Parry Evans Paternoster Row plant prawns pretty PTILOTA PLUMOSA Puffin Island puffins Rhos-fynach rock salmon sand sand-eel sand-launces sea-anemones sea-hare sea-side sea-weed seen shark shell shore skate soon species specimen spicules sponge star-fish stone STORIES suckers surface swallow swim SYNAPTA tail tentacles tide tube Weir Fishery whelks whitebait Willy asked worm young zoophyte
Popular passages
Page 150 - SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2 What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name.
Page 61 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Page 27 - Bank the mid sea : part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold...
Page 94 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 126 - As when fire is with water commix'd and contending, And the spray of its wrath to the welkin upsoars, And flood upon flood hurries on, never ending ; And it never will rest, nor from travail be free, Like a sea that is labouring the birth of a sea.
Page 112 - But what our eyes have seen and our hands have touched we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the ' Pile of Foulders,' wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by...
Page 112 - Bird : when it is perfectly formed the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater it openeth the shell by degrees...
Page 112 - ... finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of...
Page 123 - As it does not generally break up before it is raised above the surface of the sea, cautiously and anxiously I sunk my bucket to a level with the dredge's mouth, and proceeded in the most gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him, or the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping.