 in the retired parts of the mountains, where the hunters had seldom penetrated, there is no difficulty in approaching the Rocky Mountain sheep, which there exhibit the simplicity of character so remarkable in the domestic species; but where they have...  Die culturländer des alten America - Side 684af Adolf Bastian - 1878Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Sir John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby - 1829 - 418 sider
...domestic species ; but that where they had been often fired at, they were exceedingly wild, alarmed their companions on the approach of danger by a hissing noise, and scaled the rocks with a speed and agility that baffled pursuit, He lost several that he had mortally... | |
 | William Blackwood - 1831 - 986 sider
...domestic species ; but that where they had been often fired at they were exceedingly wild, alarmed their companions on the approach of danger by a hissing noise, and scaled the rocks with a speed and agility that baffled pursuit. He lost several that he Jiad mortally... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 1178 sider
...domestic species; but that where they had been often fired at, they were exceedingly wild, alarmed their companions on the approach of danger by a hissing noise, and scaled the rocks with a speed and agility that baffled pursuit. He lost several that he had mortally... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 368 sider
...had seldom penetrated, there is no difficulty in approaching the Rocky Mountain sheep, which there exhibit the simplicity of character so remarkable...rocks with a speed and agility that baffles pursuit *." It is probable, therefore, that as man, in diffusing himself over the globe, has tamed many wild... | |
 | William Jardine - 1836 - 392 sider
...Dr Gairdner.— Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Jan. 1836. they were exceedingly wild, alarmed their companions on the approach of danger by a hissing noise, and scaled the rocks with a speed and agility which baffled pursuit. Their favourite feeding-places are... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 sider
...had seldom penetrated, there is no difficulty in approaching the Rocky Mountain sheep, which there exhibit the simplicity of character so remarkable...scale the rocks with a speed and agility that baffles pursuit."4 It is probable, therefore, thai as man, in diffusing himself over the globe, has tamed many... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 500 sider
...had seldom penetrated, there is no difficulty in approaching the Rocky Mountain sheep, which there exhibit the simplicity of character so remarkable...and scale the rocks with a speed and agility that baffle pursuit."f It is probable, therefore, that as man, in diffusing himself over the globe, has... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1841 - 376 sider
...domestic species ; but that where they had been often fired at they were exceedingly wild, alarmed their companions on the approach of danger by a hissing noise, and scaled the rocks with a speed and agility that baffled pursuit. He lost several that he had mortally... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1847 - 866 sider
...de la Malle, Ann. des Sci. Nat., tom. xxi. p. 58. f Darwin's Journ. in Voyage of HMS Beagle, p. 475. where they have been often fired at, they are exceedingly...and scale the rocks with a speed and agility that baffle pursuit," * It is probable, therefore, that as man, in diffusing himself over the globe, has... | |
 | 1849 - 428 sider
...domestic species ; but that where they had been often fired at they were exceedingly wild, alarmed their companions on the approach of danger by a hissing noise, and scaled the rocks with a speed and agility that baffled pursuit. He lost several that he had mortally... | |
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