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" He has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from a very high northern latitude, to the borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliff-s of our lakes... "
A History of the Earth and Animated Nature - Page 32
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1856
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Tales about animals

Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1870 - 718 pages
...America, where it has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, existing chietly in the vicinity of the sea and along the shores and cliffs of the lakes and large rivers, although sometimes met with in high northern latitudes, and as far south...
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Johnson's Natural History, Comprehensive, Scientific, and Popular ..., Volume 2

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 pages
...furnish a rich repast for the vulture, the raven, and bald eagle, the subject of the present account. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding...produce of the sea and of the land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves; unawed by any thing but man ; and,...
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from a very higli ce is slight or I'd ask my Lord Clare. And, now that...wanted this venison to make out a dinner ! What say y largo rivers. Formed by nature for braving tho severest cold, feeding equally on tho produce of tho...
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The Scrap-book: Consisting of Tales and Anecdotes, Biographical, Historical ...

1875 - 558 pages
...naturaliste, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from very high northern latitudes to the borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliff's of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding equally...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...sitting at his desk by the tide of the your plack the poet's widow, relate. common to both continents, d as snow, When streams of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves, unawed by anything but man, and, from...
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The Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson, the American ..., Volume 1

Alexander Wilson - 1876 - 408 pages
...the present account. This bird has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from a very high northern...equally on the produce of the sea and of the land ; * The epithet bald, applied to this species, whose head is thickly covered with feathers, is equally...
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The Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson, the American ..., Volume 1

Alexander Wilson - 1876 - 414 pages
...tho present account. Tim bird has boon long known to naturalista, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from a very high northern...the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and clifls of our lakes and huge rivers. Formed by Nature for braving tho severest cold ; feeding equally...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...bawbee if it were mine.' This we heard Mrs Bums, the poet's widow, relate. common to both continents, what it was to sorrow for and with a sinning snores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold, feeding...
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An elementary Indian reader

sir Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1877 - 198 pages
...furnish a rich repast for the vulture, the raven, and the bald eagle, the subject of the present account. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold, feeding...produce of the sea and of the land, possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves, unawed by anything but man, and, from...
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Our National Centennial Jubilee: Orations, Addresses and Poems Delivered on ...

Frederick Saunders - 1877 - 894 pages
...Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Wilson, the American ornithologist, says of the bird : " Formed by nature for braving the severest cold, feeding equally on the produce of the sea and of the hind, possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves, unawed by anything...
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