Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation, Bind 2J. Murray, 1833 - 511 sider |
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... covered with a warm coat both of hair and wool , which enables them to bear the most intense cold without inconvenience . There are differences also of another kind no less remarkable , as in size , the length of their muzzles , and the ...
... covered with a warm coat both of hair and wool , which enables them to bear the most intense cold without inconvenience . There are differences also of another kind no less remarkable , as in size , the length of their muzzles , and the ...
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... covered with a warm coat of hair or wool , be transported to a southern climate , it will often , in the course of a few years , shed a considerable portion of its coat , which it gradually recovers on being again restored to its native ...
... covered with a warm coat of hair or wool , be transported to a southern climate , it will often , in the course of a few years , shed a considerable portion of its coat , which it gradually recovers on being again restored to its native ...
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... covered , loading it on their hind legs , and carrying it to their hive for the purpose of feeding their young ! In thus providing for their own progeny , these insects assist materially the process of fructification * . Few of our ...
... covered , loading it on their hind legs , and carrying it to their hive for the purpose of feeding their young ! In thus providing for their own progeny , these insects assist materially the process of fructification * . Few of our ...
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... covered and uncovered daily by the tide , others live in abysses of the ocean , at the extraor- dinary depth of one thousand feet ; and although in such situ- ations there must reign darkness more profound than night , at least to our ...
... covered and uncovered daily by the tide , others live in abysses of the ocean , at the extraor- dinary depth of one thousand feet ; and although in such situ- ations there must reign darkness more profound than night , at least to our ...
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... covered with an alluvial soil on which herbs and pine - saplings are seen growing , which often continue to vegetate on some distant shore where the ice - island is stranded . Dispersion of marine plants . With respect to marine vege ...
... covered with an alluvial soil on which herbs and pine - saplings are seen growing , which often continue to vegetate on some distant shore where the ice - island is stranded . Dispersion of marine plants . With respect to marine vege ...
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