 | Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 548 pages
...fleih (whatfoever they be) are at the fame time confiderably leiTened. Thefe animals, when at liberty, remain torpid throughout the winter ; yet when confined...have never been obferved to take their annual repofe. The method of catching them is by putting a cleft ftick on or near their head ; after which they are... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1793 - 418 pages
...fhould at that time be thrown into their box, though they will kill, yet they will never eat them. When at liberty, they remain torpid throughout the...have never been obferved to take their annual repofe. They are ufually taken with wooden ton^s, by the end of the tail, which may be done without danger... | |
 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1797 - 556 pages
...repeated information ; but have never been fo fortunate as to meet with a perfon who had diflected a viper, while thus concealing her young; or who had...remain torpid throughout the •winter; yet, when confmed, have never been obferved to take their annual repofe. Their poifon decreafes in proportion... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 624 pages
...kept above six months in a box \vithout food; during which time its vivacity was not lessened. — When at liberty they remain torpid throughout the winter ; yet, when confined, they have never been observed to take their annual repose. * White's Natural History of Selborne. They... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...should at that time be thrown into their box, though they will kill, yet they will never eat them. When at liberty, they remain torpid throughout the winter; yet, when confined, have never been observed to take their annual repose. Their poison, however, decreases in proportion to the length... | |
 | 1824 - 188 pages
...diet, should at that timo be thrown into their box though they will kill, yet they will never eat them. When at liberty, they remain torpid throughout the winter ; yet when confined, they have never been observed to take their annual repose. Their poison, however, increases in proportion... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 376 pages
...should at that time be thrown into their box, though they will kill, yet they will never eat them. When at liberty, they remain torpid throughout the winter; yet, when confined, have never been observed to take their annual repose. Vipers crawl slowly at all times, and in general only attack... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 618 pages
...should at that time be thrown into their box, though they will kill, yet they will never eat them. When at liberty they remain torpid throughout the winter ; yet, when confined, they have never been observed to take their annual repose. They are usually taken with wooden tongs,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...should at that time be thrown into their box, though they will kill, yet they will never eat them. When at liberty, they remain torpid throughout the winter ; yet, when confined, have never been observed to take their annual repose. Their poison, however, decreases in proportion to the length... | |
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... six months without food ; yet during the whole time they did not abate of their vivacity. They feed only a small part of the year, but never during their confinement ; for if mice, their favourite diet, should at that time be thrown into their box,... 