 | 1827 - 456 pages
...flocks that have been bred there. It is then that you see and hear the alligator at his work, —each lake has a spot deeper than the rest, rendered so...any will remain. This is called by the hunters the Alligator's Hole. You see them there lying close together. The fish that are already dying by thousand.s,... | |
 | 1827 - 452 pages
...flocks that have been bred there. It is then that you see and hear the alligator at his work, — each lake has a spot deeper than the rest, rendered so...any will remain. This is called by the hunters the Alligator's Hole. You see them there lying close together. The fish that are already dying by thousands,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 1028 pages
...work at it ; it is always situated at the lower end of the lake, near the connecting bayous. Thus, as drainers pass through all those lakes, and discharge...below where the water had made its entrance above, they insure to themselves water as long as any remains. This is called by the hunters the Alligator's... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 pages
...that have been bred there. • It is then that you see and hear the alligator at his work, — each lake has a spot deeper than the rest, rendered so...where the water had made its entrance above, thereby insuring to themselves water as long as any will remain. This is called by the hunters the alligators'... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 418 pages
...its operations during the dry season, given by the traveller from whom I have already quoted. "Each lake, has a spot deeper than the rest, rendered so by those animals, who work at it, and always situated at the lower end of the lake, thereby insuring themselves water as long as any will remain.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 516 pages
...work at it ; it is always situated at the lower end of the lake, near the connecting bayous. Thus, as drainers pass through all those lakes, and discharge...below where the water had made its entrance above, they insure to themselves water as long as any remains. This is called by the hunters the Alligator's... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1843 - 866 pages
...flocks that have been bred there. 1 It is then that you see and hear the alligator at his work, — each lake has a spot deeper than the rest, rendered so...drainers, pass through all those lakes, and discharge some times many miles below where the water had made its entrance above, thereby insuring to themselves... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 442 pages
...its operations during the dry season, given by the traveller from whom I have already quoted. "Each lake, has a spot deeper than the rest, rendered so by those animals, who work at it, and always situated at the lower end of the lake, thereby insuring themselves water as long as any will remain.... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1850 - 308 pages
...flocks that have been bred there. It is then that you see and hear the Alligator, at his work ; each lake has a spot deeper than the rest, rendered so by those animals, who work at it ; and always situated at the lower end of the lake, near the connecting bayous, which, as drainers, pass through... | |
 | 1851 - 1306 pages
...flocks that have been bred there. " It is then that you see ad hear the alligater at his work, — each lake has a spot deeper than the rest, rendered so...at the lower end of the lake, near the connecting bayou?, that, as drainers, pass through all those lakes, and discharge some times many miles below... | |
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... exhibit a mourning train, patiently waiting for the water to dry and leave food for them, — and far in the horizon the eagle overtakes a devoted wood-duck, singled from the clouded flocks that have been bred there. It is then that you see and hear... 