 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...transmigrations there ? A range of mountains in Africa, that surround atmost atl Monomotapa. THOMSON. AUTUMN Here the plain harmless native his small flock, And herd diminutive of many hues. Tends on the little... | |
 | 1845 - 518 pages
...annual made? what nations come and ко ? And hovr the living clouds on clouds arise ? Infinite wing« ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry." Most birds perform their migrations diirinc the Bight; bat there are some that travel only by day,... | |
 | Philip Tocque - 1846 - 418 pages
...myriads of birds fluttering on the wing, darkening the air and screaming dreadfully. "Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations...plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry." The penguin or great auk (Alca Impennis, Linn.) about thirty years ago was very plentiful on the Funk... | |
 | Migratory birds - 1847 - 74 pages
...isles Of farthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what...plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry." — THOMSON. Speak we now of two separate divisions of the migratory species, waders and swimmers.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...Of farthest Thulu, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides — 865 Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what...and go ? And how the living clouds on clouds arise ?* the young birds is curious ; their parents carry them at first upon their own wings, and then conduct... | |
 | 1847 - 110 pages
...and Plesiosauri swarming in the ocean, and gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shores " Till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry"— of the primeval lakes and rivers ; air, sea, and land, must have been strangely peopled in those early... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1848 - 610 pages
...produce a busy scene, which Harvey not inaptly compared to " a mighty swarm of bees." Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations...plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry. THOMSON. statement, observes, " All that we could discover upon it in the month of May just amounted... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...isles Of furthest Thule ; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides. Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations...clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the pluuie-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry." Most terrestrial birds, unacquainted with... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 524 pages
...Hebrides ; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ' what nations come and go ? 865 And how the living clouds on clouds arise ? Infinite...plume-dark air, And rude resounding shore are one wild cry. Here the plain harmless native his small flock, And herd diminutive of many hues, 870 Tends on the... | |
 | Staffa - 1850 - 186 pages
...isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides, Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made ? what...! till all the plume-dark air. And rude resounding shores, are one wild cry.' The Dutchman's Cap Island is the breeding-place of vast numbers of the lesser... | |
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Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore... 
