A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... Whale - The Fin Fish - The Narwal , or Sea Unicorn - The Spermaceti Whale - The Dolphin - Grampus , Porpesse , & c . CHAP . VIII . - PART I. 64 Of Cartilaginous Fishes - Of the Shark - The White Shark --- The Blue , the Long - tailed ...
... Whale - The Fin Fish - The Narwal , or Sea Unicorn - The Spermaceti Whale - The Dolphin - Grampus , Porpesse , & c . CHAP . VIII . - PART I. 64 Of Cartilaginous Fishes - Of the Shark - The White Shark --- The Blue , the Long - tailed ...
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... whales which supplies the reservoir , whence it spouts , with a con- stant stock of ammunition . This oil is esteemed ... whale is taken , these birds will , in defiance of all endeavours , light upon it , and pick out large lumps of fat ...
... whales which supplies the reservoir , whence it spouts , with a con- stant stock of ammunition . This oil is esteemed ... whale is taken , these birds will , in defiance of all endeavours , light upon it , and pick out large lumps of fat ...
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... WHALE ... The Fin Fish ... The Narwal , or Sea Unicorn ... The SPER- MACETI WHALE ... The DOLPHIN ... Grampus , Porpesse , & c . THE number of fish to which we have given names , and with the figure of which at least we are a little ...
... WHALE ... The Fin Fish ... The Narwal , or Sea Unicorn ... The SPER- MACETI WHALE ... The DOLPHIN ... Grampus , Porpesse , & c . THE number of fish to which we have given names , and with the figure of which at least we are a little ...
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... whale kind . There are others , though not capable of nursing their young , yet that bring them alive into the world , and de- fend them with courage and activity . These are the Car- tilaginous kinds , or those which have gristles ...
... whale kind . There are others , though not capable of nursing their young , yet that bring them alive into the world , and de- fend them with courage and activity . These are the Car- tilaginous kinds , or those which have gristles ...
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... WHALE . Or the Whale , properly so called , there are no less than seven different kinds ; all distinguished from each other by their external figure or internal conformation . The GREAT GREENLAND WHALE , without a back fin , and black ...
... WHALE . Or the Whale , properly so called , there are no less than seven different kinds ; all distinguished from each other by their external figure or internal conformation . The GREAT GREENLAND WHALE , without a back fin , and black ...
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Alligator anal fins animal appears ash colour back fin bait belly bill bird boat body bones bottom brown called claws coasts common covered CRAB creature Crocodile danger deep devour dorsal fin DUCK dusky Eels eggs EIDER DUCK England eyes feathers feed feet long female fish fishermen flesh Frog furnished genus gills goose Greenland grows GULL head hundred inches in length inches long inhabitants kind known lakes lateral line legs lizard mackerel manner motion mouth MULTIVALVE neck pectoral fins placed plumage pounds pounds weight prey quadrupeds rays resembles rivers round scales season seen seize seldom Serpent Shark shell shoals shore side silvery skin slender snail Snake sometimes spawn species spermaceti spines spots surface swimming tail taken teeth thick Toad Tortoise tribe upper venomous ventral ventral fins Viper viviparous weighs whale whole wings wound yellow young