Home and Social Philosophy: Or, Chapters on Every-day Topics, Bind 2G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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... Antwerp , Brussels , and Paris . In the former city a society of pigeon - fanciers , for amusement and emulation , keeps up an establishment of them . Their doings are amusingly chronicled in Kohl's last book of Travel , Reisen in den ...
... Antwerp , Brussels , and Paris . In the former city a society of pigeon - fanciers , for amusement and emulation , keeps up an establishment of them . Their doings are amusingly chronicled in Kohl's last book of Travel , Reisen in den ...
Side 91
... Antwerp association for training and teaching these carriers , I learnt the following particulars . Supposing a dispatch of pigeons is to be sent off from Antwerp to Brussels or Paris , the birds are kept for some time at the place of ...
... Antwerp association for training and teaching these carriers , I learnt the following particulars . Supposing a dispatch of pigeons is to be sent off from Antwerp to Brussels or Paris , the birds are kept for some time at the place of ...
Side 92
... Antwerp Society , as- sured me that their pigeons had frequently flown from Paris to Antwerp in six or seven hours ; consequently in a much shorter time than that in which the same journey is per- formed by the railway train . By bird's ...
... Antwerp Society , as- sured me that their pigeons had frequently flown from Paris to Antwerp in six or seven hours ; consequently in a much shorter time than that in which the same journey is per- formed by the railway train . By bird's ...
Side 93
... Antwerp , consisted of about thirty birds . The point of departure was a somewhat elevated site in the outskirts of the city . A spot like this is always made choice of lest the pigeons , on first taking flight , should lose themselves ...
... Antwerp , consisted of about thirty birds . The point of departure was a somewhat elevated site in the outskirts of the city . A spot like this is always made choice of lest the pigeons , on first taking flight , should lose themselves ...
Side 94
... Antwerp pigeons - and to Mr. Kohl . Having , he continues , reached the open , elevated spot before - mentioned , the flat baskets carried by the servants were uncovered , and the little voyageurs rapidly winged their way upwards . The ...
... Antwerp pigeons - and to Mr. Kohl . Having , he continues , reached the open , elevated spot before - mentioned , the flat baskets carried by the servants were uncovered , and the little voyageurs rapidly winged their way upwards . The ...
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