The Wonders of Nature and Art: Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World; Whether Relating to Its Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Productions, Or to the Manufactures, Buildings and Inventions of Its Inhabitants, Compiled from Historical and Geographical Works of Established Celebrity, and Illustrated with the Discoveries of Modern Travellers, Zväzok 5J. Walker, 1803 |
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Strana 18
... respect , can only be distinguished from the true by those who are accustomed to view genuine diamonds ; but they are greatly inferior to them , in point of hardness . To distinguish diamonds from all other stones , whether counterfeit ...
... respect , can only be distinguished from the true by those who are accustomed to view genuine diamonds ; but they are greatly inferior to them , in point of hardness . To distinguish diamonds from all other stones , whether counterfeit ...
Strana 22
... respect to the emerald . The topaz of the moderns , which is undoubt edly the chrysolite of the ancients , is a very beau- tiful and valuable gem in its purest and most per- fect state ; but such are rarely to be met with , and the less ...
... respect to the emerald . The topaz of the moderns , which is undoubt edly the chrysolite of the ancients , is a very beau- tiful and valuable gem in its purest and most per- fect state ; but such are rarely to be met with , and the less ...
Strana 23
... respects it differs from the opal , particularly in its want of the variety of colours , and in its superior hardness . It has only two natural colours , a pale brown and a white , the brown bring the ground , and the white playing ...
... respects it differs from the opal , particularly in its want of the variety of colours , and in its superior hardness . It has only two natural colours , a pale brown and a white , the brown bring the ground , and the white playing ...
Strana 44
... respects , very useful ; and , as it is re- markably tough , and of a strong texture , Mr. Ha- milton supposes , that it might be successfully used in ship building . ANIMALS . THE elephant , the largest of all quadrupeds 44 INDIA .
... respects , very useful ; and , as it is re- markably tough , and of a strong texture , Mr. Ha- milton supposes , that it might be successfully used in ship building . ANIMALS . THE elephant , the largest of all quadrupeds 44 INDIA .
Strana 45
... respects , merits our attention , is a native of India . It is a genus of that class of quadrupeds , called by Linnæus the Jumenta , the characters of which are , that the` teeth are few in number , and disposed in an irregu- lar manner ...
... respects , merits our attention , is a native of India . It is a genus of that class of quadrupeds , called by Linnæus the Jumenta , the characters of which are , that the` teeth are few in number , and disposed in an irregu- lar manner ...
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Strana 200 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Strana 263 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.
Strana 207 - Many curious and striking particulars are related of the great devastations committed by this powerful community, which construct roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the nest, and leading to every object of plunder within their reach. Though the mischiefs they commit are very great, such is the economy of nature, that...
Strana 177 - ... at ten feet from the well. Grooves of the like depth, or height, and four feet diftant from each other at the outer part of the outer circle, are carried...
Strana 28 - In winter the Gymnosophists enjoy the benefit of the sun's rays in the open air ; and in summer, when the heat becomes excessive, they pass their time in cool and moist places, under large trees ; which, according to the accounts of Nearchus, cover a circumference of five acres, and extend their branches so far, that ten thousand men may easily find shelter under them.
Strana 74 - In general he was not voracious, but never appeared satiated with grasshoppers ; and passed the whole night, while the hot season lasted, in prowling for them : when a grasshopper, or any insect, alighted within his reach, his eyes, which he fixed on his prey, glowed with uncommon fire ; and, having drawn himself back to spring on it with greater force, he seized the victim with both his fore-paws, but held it in one of them while he devoured it.
Strana 50 - Again, a painter was desirous of drawing the elephant kept in the menagerie at Versailles in an uncommon attitude, which was that of holding his trunk raised up in the air, with his mouth open. The painter's boy, in order to keep the animal in this posture, threw fruit into his mouth ; but as he...
Strana 48 - At length he was seized with one of his periodical fits of rage, broke from his fetters, and, running through the market, put the crowd to flight, and among others this woman, who in her haste forgot a little child she had brought with her. The animal...
Strana 251 - ... in leaves and cloth, and others tearing to pieces all the cloth which had belonged to her. In another houfe hard by, the men of the village, with a great many others from the neighbouring towns, were fitting drinking foura and fmoaking tobacco.
Strana 263 - Europe, after the discovery of a passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope ; the...