 In the shade of the woods on the south-eastern side, we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having all the external characteristics of the bison, but more diminutive than any species of the bos genus in our natural history.  Practical Talks by an Astronomer - Page 206by Harold Jacoby - 1902 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 390 pages
...panting hopes with specimens of conscious existence. In the shade of the woods on the south-eastern side, we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having...any species of the bos genus in our natural history. Its tail was like that of our bos grunniens ; but in its semi-circular horns, the hump on its shoulders,... | |
 | Richard Adams Locke, Joseph Nicolas Nicollet - 1852 - 156 pages
...panting hopes with specimens of conscious existence. In the shade of the woods, on the southeastern side, we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having...any species of the bos genus in our natural history. Its tail was like that of our bos grunniens; but in its semicircular horns, the hump on its shoulders,... | |
 | Richard Adams Locke - 1859 - 90 pages
...panting hopes with specimens of conscious existence. In the shade of the woods on the south-eastern side, we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having...bison, but more diminutive than any species of the boa genus in our natural history. Its tail is like that of our bos grunniens; but in its semi-circular... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 558 pages
...panting hopes with specimens of conscious existence. In the shade of the woods on the south-eastern side, we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having...any species of the bos genus in our natural history. Its tail is like that of our bos grunniens ; but in its semi-circular horns, the hump on its shoulders,... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 550 pages
...south-eastern side, we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having all the external characteristies of the bison, but more diminutive than any species of the bos genus in our natural history. Its tail is like that of our bos grunniens ; but in its semi-circular horns, the hump on its shoulders,... | |
 | 1876 - 600 pages
...blessed our panting hopes with specimens of conscious existence. In the shade of the woods we beheld brown quadrupeds having all the external characteristics...species of the bos genus in our natural history.' Then herds of agile creatures like antelopes are described, ' abounding on the acclivitous glades of... | |
 | Belgravia - 1876 - 562 pages
...blessed our panting hopes with specimens of conscious existence. In the shade of the woods we beheld brown quadrupeds having all the external characteristics...species of the bos genus in our natural history.' Then herds of agile creatures like antelopes are described, ' abounding on the acclivitous glades of... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1878 - 498 pages
...blessed our panting hopes with specimens of conscious existence. In the shade of the woods we beheld brown quadrupeds having all the external characteristics...species of the bos genus in our natural history.' Then herds of agile creatures like antelopes are described, ' abounding on the acclivitous glades of... | |
 | Frank Michael O'Brien - 1918 - 562 pages
...wonderful moon, life at last burst upon the seers : In the shade of the woods on the southeastern side we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having...any species of the bos genus in our natural history. Its tail was like that of our bos grunniens; but in its semicircular horns, the hump on its shoulders,... | |
 | Charles Greeley Abbot - 1925 - 322 pages
...the open glades, from the branches to the ground." At length came their first view of animal life, "herds of brown quadrupeds having all the external characteristics of the bison," but much smaller, and with "one widely distinctive feature, which we afterwards found common to nearly... | |
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