The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, Volume 11

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A. and C. Black, 1831
 

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Page 105 - ... and reposed in peace on the floor of the only apartment of which the hut consisted. Day dawned, and the squatter's call to his hogs, which, being almost in a wild state, were suffered to seek the greater portion of their food in the woods, awakened me. Being ready dressed, I was not long in joining him. The hogs and their young came grunting at the...
Page 113 - Your friends are waiting you under the shade of the wood, and we must together go driving the light-footed deer. The distance over which one has to travel is seldom felt when pleasure is anticipated as the result, so galloping we go pell-mell through the woods to some well-known place, where many a fine buck has drooped its antlers under the ball of the hunter's rifle. The servants, who are called the drivers, have already begun their search, their voices are heard exciting the hounds, and unless...
Page 114 - ... fleeting game as it passes by. Hark again! The dogs are in chase, the horn sounds louder and more clearly. Hurry, hurry on, or we shall be sadly behind! Here we are at last! Dismount, fasten your horse to this tree, place yourself by the side of that large yellow poplar, and mind you do not shoot me! The Deer is fast approaching; I will to my own stand, and he who shoots him dead wins the prize. The Deer is heard coming. It has inadvertently cracked a dead stick with its hoof, and the dogs are...
Page 103 - Chickasaw village, situated near the mouth of a creek known by the name of Vanconnah, and partly inundated by the swellings of several large bayous, the principal of which, crossing the swamp in its whole extent, discharges its waters not far from the mouth of the Yazoo river. This famous bayou is called False river. The swamp of which I am speaking, follows the windings of the Yazoo, until the latter branches off to the northeast, and at this point forms the stream named Cold Water river, below...
Page 51 - Fit autem communicatio haec non per parietem cordis medium, ut vulgo creditur, sed magno artificio a dextro cordis ventriculo, longo per pulmones ductu agitatur sanguis subtilis: a pulmonibus praeparatur: flavus efficitur, et a vena arteriosa in arteriam venosam transfunditur.
Page 107 - ... lowered close to his head, as if he thought he might remain undiscovered. Three balls were fired at him at a given signal, on which he sprang a few feet from the branch, and tumbled headlong to the ground, attacked on all sides by the enraged curs. The infuriated cougar fought with desperate...
Page 164 - The laminae of copper are turned over the respective mast-heads, and secured about an inch or more down on the opposite side ; the cap which corresponds is prepared in a somewhat similar way, the copper being continued from the lining in the aft part of the round hole, over the cap, into the fore part of the square one, where it is turned down and secured as before, so that when the cap is in its place, the contact is complete. In this way, we have, under all circumstances, a continuous metallic...
Page 202 - ... machines, commonly called mules, are or may be rendered what is termed selfacting, that is to say, certain improvements in certain machinery, by aid of which machinery, spinning machines, commonly called mules, are or may be worked by power without requiring the usual application of strength of the spinners...
Page 265 - The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction.
Page 398 - Hence he can calculate the chance of overtaking the man. Besides all this, every Arab knows the printed footsteps of his own camels, and of those belonging to his immediate neighbours. He knows by the depth or slightness of the impression whether a camel was pasturing, and therefore not carrying any load, or mounted by one person only, or heavily loaded.

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