 As they have somewhat the form of the lobster, so they resemble that animal in casting their shell, or more properly their skin ; since it is softer by far than the covering of the lobster, and set with hairs, which grow from it in great abundance, particularly...  A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature - Page 436by Oliver Goldsmith - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1793 - 418 pages
...they caft their fkin as the latter does its fhell, which is, however, fofter and covered with hair, particularly at the joinings. The young lie in the...of the parent, each covered up in its own membrane, and united to each other by an oblong thread, fo as to exhibit altogether the form of a chaplet. There... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 758 pages
...fhell, or more properly their (km ; fince it is fotter by far than the covering of tlie lobfter, and fct with hairs, which grow from it in great abundance,...the parent, each covered up in its own membrane, to tiie number of 40 or 50, and united to each othe r by an obiong thread, fo as to exhibit altogether... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 746 pages
...properly their fkin ; fince it is fofter by far than the covering of (he lobfter, and fet with h;iirs, which grow from it in great abundance, particularly...each covered up in its own membrane, to the number of 40 or 50, and united to each other by an oblong thread, fo as to exhibit altogether the form of a cbaplet.... | |
 | 1816 - 762 pages
...covering of the lobfter, and fet with hairs, which gron, from it in great abundance, particular ly at the joinings. The young lie in the womb of the...each covered up in its own membrane, to the number of 40 or 50, and united to each other by an oblong thread, fo as to exhibit altogether the form of a chaplet.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 440 pages
...so they resemble that animal in casting their shell, or more properly their skin, since it istsofter by far than the covering of the lobster, and set with...forty or fifty, and united to each other by an oblong thread, so as to exhibit altogether the form of a chaplet. Such is the manner in which the common scorpion... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...dark rusty hue. Another female, in a different vessel, brought forth twenty-seven of the same color, and the day following the young ones seemed all fixed...forty or fifty, and united to each other by an oblong thread, so as to exhibit altogether the form of a chaplet. It seems probable that captivity produces... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...in a different vessel, brought forth twenty-seven of the same color, and the day following the yonng ones seemed all fixed to the back and belly of the...forty or fifty, and united to each other by an oblong thread, so as to exhihit altogether the form of a chaplet. It seems probable that captivity produces... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 526 pages
...parent; and this soon after revenged the cause of its brethren, by killing the old one in its turn. Were it worth the trouble, these animals might be...forty or fifty, and united to each other by an oblong thread, so as to exhibit altogether the form of a chaplet. There is, however, a Scorpion of America,... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 402 pages
...perhaps, in the larger kind, double that duration. As they have somewhat the form of the lobster, sothey resemble that animal in casting their shell, or more...forty or fifty, and united to each other by an oblong thread, so as to exhibit altogether the form of a chaplet. There is, however, a Scorpion of America,... | |
 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 pages
...years, and perhaps, in the larger kind, double that duration. As "they have somewhat the form of a lobster, so they resemble that animal in casting their...abundance, particularly at the joinings. -The young, prior to their birth, lie each covered up in its own membrane to the number of forty or fifty, and... | |
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