| 1854 - 428 pages
...and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was obliged to withdraw...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...and novelty of soch a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was obliged to withdraw...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| 1854 - 394 pages
...and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was obliged to withdraw my eye, from fatigue, wit limit having seen the torrent for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 530 pages
...and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation, I was obliged to...portions of this together in a glass of sea-water, with their orifices opposite to each other at the distance of two inches; they appeared to the naked... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1857 - 398 pages
...and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but after twentyfive minutes of constant observation, I was obliged to...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 pages
...and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but after twentyfive minutes of constant observation, I was obliged to...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1858 - 168 pages
...long arrested my attention ; but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation, I was 6 INSECTS. obliged to withdraw my eye, from fatigue, without...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch at short intervals, till the... | |
| Agrippa Nelson Bell - 1860 - 354 pages
...and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but, after twentyfive minutes of constant observation, I was obliged to...direction or diminish the rapidity of its course."* It is by means of this incessant circulation that particles of organized matter suspended in the water... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation, I was obliged to...for one instant, change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| A.N. BELL, A.M., M.D. - 1860 - 340 pages
...and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but, after twentyfive minutes of constant observation, I was obliged to...the torrent for one instant change its direction or dimmish the rapidity of its course."* It is by means of this incessant circulation that particles of... | |
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