Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica: Revised and Amended : a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature to which is Added Biographies of Living Subjects, 96 Colored Maps and Numerous Illustrations, Volume 7Belford-Clarke Company, 1890 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 3869
... animals have long since been killed or driven out of the woods . Stock can be kept in the higher lands . The government is modeled on that of the United States , and consists of a president , and a congress composed of a senate of eight ...
... animals have long since been killed or driven out of the woods . Stock can be kept in the higher lands . The government is modeled on that of the United States , and consists of a president , and a congress composed of a senate of eight ...
Page 3891
... animals , who scrape away the snow and eagerly feed upon them . Another nutritious lichen is the " Tripe de Roche " of the Arctic regions , consisting of several species of the Gyrophorei , which when boiled is often eaten by the ...
... animals , who scrape away the snow and eagerly feed upon them . Another nutritious lichen is the " Tripe de Roche " of the Arctic regions , consisting of several species of the Gyrophorei , which when boiled is often eaten by the ...
Page 3923
... animals Its have been better known to man than the lion . geographical habitat made it familiar to all the races among whom human civilization took its origin , and its strongly marked physical and moral characteristics have rendered it ...
... animals Its have been better known to man than the lion . geographical habitat made it familiar to all the races among whom human civilization took its origin , and its strongly marked physical and moral characteristics have rendered it ...
Page 3924
... animal approaches sufficiently near , when , with one prodigious bound , he pounces upon it . His food con- sists of all the larger herbivorous animals of the coun- try in which he resides - buffaloes , various kinds of antelopes ...
... animal approaches sufficiently near , when , with one prodigious bound , he pounces upon it . His food con- sists of all the larger herbivorous animals of the coun- try in which he resides - buffaloes , various kinds of antelopes ...
Page 3937
... animals , in color scarcely distinguishable from their surroundings . Some , like many geckos , live near or in houses , being enabled by a peculiar apparatus of their toes to run along perpendicular and even over- The motions of most ...
... animals , in color scarcely distinguishable from their surroundings . Some , like many geckos , live near or in houses , being enabled by a peculiar apparatus of their toes to run along perpendicular and even over- The motions of most ...
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