Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny and Gold, 1801 |
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... perhaps the most perfect of all their senses , and yet their seeing is far inferior to that of most other animals , the Eye in almost all fish is covered with the same transparent skin that surrounds the rest of the head ; and which ...
... perhaps the most perfect of all their senses , and yet their seeing is far inferior to that of most other animals , the Eye in almost all fish is covered with the same transparent skin that surrounds the rest of the head ; and which ...
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... perhaps equally mysterious , as its passage from the Gills of fishes into the arteries leading to the heart . As the Air and Water pass quickly through the gills , without any apparent effort to separate them , probably but a small ...
... perhaps equally mysterious , as its passage from the Gills of fishes into the arteries leading to the heart . As the Air and Water pass quickly through the gills , without any apparent effort to separate them , probably but a small ...
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... perhaps no one kind can be pointed out , that subsists entirely upon them ; and altho ' most fishes eat Flies and terrestrial Worms when they come in their way , yet in the immeasurable Waste of Waters surrounding this Globe , the ...
... perhaps no one kind can be pointed out , that subsists entirely upon them ; and altho ' most fishes eat Flies and terrestrial Worms when they come in their way , yet in the immeasurable Waste of Waters surrounding this Globe , the ...
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... perhaps be found more apparent than real . Some are said to subsist on pure water alone ; the Element of water , however , is seldom found unmixed ; the very epithets usually applied to it of salt , bitter , sweet , imply a composition ...
... perhaps be found more apparent than real . Some are said to subsist on pure water alone ; the Element of water , however , is seldom found unmixed ; the very epithets usually applied to it of salt , bitter , sweet , imply a composition ...
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... perhaps of every sort , procure some part of their sustenance from water , yet of all known to Man as an article of food , not one it is conceived subsists so entirely on water as the Herring , and there is little reason to doubt , but ...
... perhaps of every sort , procure some part of their sustenance from water , yet of all known to Man as an article of food , not one it is conceived subsists so entirely on water as the Herring , and there is little reason to doubt , but ...
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