 It may be worthy of notice here, that the fish froze as they were taken out of the nets, and in a short time became a solid mass of ice ; and by a blow or two of the hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in one lump. If...  The Intellectual Observer - Page 1031867Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 700 pages
...hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in a lump, and if in this completely frozen state they were thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation." The persistency of vitality, even after mutilation of the body, is in most of the cold-blooded animals... | |
 | George Combe - 1850 - 452 pages
...hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in one lump. If, in this completely frozen state, they were thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation.' Sheep sometimes remain for several weeks in a state of torpitude, buried beneath wreaths of snow. Swallows... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1851 - 534 pages
...ice, and by a blow or two of the hatchet, they were easily split open. If, however, in the completely frozen state, they were thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation. — ED. The first week in December was very wet, with the barometer very low. On the 7th, with the... | |
 | Mark Forrester - 1854 - 358 pages
...became solid masses of ice. Of course they exhibited no signs of life. If, however, in this completely frozen state they were thawed before the, fire, they...This was particularly the case with the carp, and we had occasion to observe it repeatedly, as Doctor Richardson occupied himself in examining the structure... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...ice, and by a blow or two of the hatchet, they were easily split open. If, however, in the completely frozen state, they were thawed before the fire, they recovered their animation. — Eo. The first week in December was very wet, with the barometer very low. On the 7th, with the... | |
 | Mark Forrester - 1855 - 358 pages
...became solid masses of ice. Of course they exhibited no signs of life. If, however, in this completely frozen state they were thawed before the fire, they...This was particularly the case with the carp, and we had occasion to observe it repeatedly, as Doctor Richardson occupied himself in examining the structure... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 pages
...hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in one lump. If, in this completely frozen state, they were thawed before the fire, they...This was particularly the case with the carp ; and we had occasion to observe it repeatedly, as Dr. Richardson occupied himself in examining the structure... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 500 pages
...hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in one lump. If, in this completely frozen state, they were thawed before the fire, they...This was particularly the case with the carp ; and we had occasion to observe it repeatedly, as Dr. Richardson occupied himself in examining the structure... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1862 - 284 pages
...hatchet were easily split open, when the intestines might be removed in one lump. If in this completely frozen state they were thawed before the fire, they...This was particularly the case with the carp ; and we had occasion to observe it repeatedly, as Dr. Eichardson occupied himself in examining the structure... | |
 | Jonathan Couch - 1865 - 602 pages
...were easily split open, so that their entrails might be removed in one lump. But if in this fro/en state they were thawed before the fire they recovered...and he has seen a Carp so completely restored after having been frozen for thirty-six hours, as to leap about with much vigour. As a contrast to this it... | |
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