 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1837 - 376 pages
...Hancock. was no water at all. It is fat, free from bone, and very good eating ; it feeds on fruits, seeds, and insects. The Snake Fish is about two feet...after the fish is dead. The bladder, or sound, running along the spine, contains air that burns when put in contact with the light. There are numerous other... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1837 - 388 pages
...Hancock. was no water at all. It is fat, free from bone, and very good eating ; it feeds on fruits, seeds, and insects. The Snake Fish is about two feet...after the fish is dead. The bladder, or sound, running along the spine, contains air that burns when put in contact with the light. There are numerous other... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1846 - 642 pages
...their combined observations, it has been ascertained that the Poma Sodomitica are actual galls, two inches long and an inch and a half in diameter, of a beautiful rich glossy purplish red exteriorly, and filled with an intensely bitter, porous, and easily... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 pages
...their combined observations, it has been ascertained that the Poma Sodomilica are actual galls, two inches long and an inch and a half in diameter, of a beautiful rich glossy purplish red exteriorly, and filled with an intensely bitter, porous, and easily... | |
 | George Hanneman Bennett - Guyana - 1866 - 366 pages
...off, indicative of the rough work to which this fish-saw is evidently applied.' The Snake Fish 9 ' is about two feet six inches long, and an inch and...snout flattened, eyes small, and near the point of tbe jaw. The greatest singularity connected with this fish is, that its heart will continue to move... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 860 pages
...somewhat acid and of a pleasant flavour, and ices flavoured with it are delicious. Its fruit is about two inches long, and an inch and a half in diameter, of a livid purple colour, with orange pulp.— The fruit of some species of P., however, is not only uneatable,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...somewhat acid and of a pleasant flavour, and ices flavoured with it are delicious. Its fruit is about two inches long, and an inch and a half in diameter, of a livid purple colour, with orange pulp. — The fruit of some species of P., however, is not only uneatable,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 844 pages
...somewhat acid and of u pleasant flavor, and ices flavored with it are delicious. Its fruit is ahont two inches long, and an inch and a half in diameter, of a livid pnrple color, with orange pulp. — Tin: fruit of. ли me speciee of P., however, is iiot only... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1881 - 902 pages
...somewhat acid and of a pleasant flavor, and ices flavored with it are delicious. Its fruit is about two inches long, and an inch and a half in diameter, of a livid purple color, with orange pulp. — The fruit of some species of passion-flower, however, is... | |
 | John Timbs - Inventions - 1882 - 472 pages
...The stones of the first course are two feet thick, and the metal rods with which they are bolted are two feet six inches long, and an inch and a half in diameter. For the reception of the bolt a hole is drilled through the stone, and a corresponding hole, undercut... | |
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It is fat, free from bone, and very good eating ; it feeds on fruits, seeds, and insects. The Snake Fish is about two feet six inches long, and an inch and a half in diameter ; of a dark brown colour on the upper part, underneath of dull yellow, studded... 
