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Passatges populars
Pàgina 613 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Pàgina 613 - And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Pàgina 823 - The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology ; by Sir W.
Pàgina 604 - ... established in Great Britain by act of Parliament ; and the dates of all deeds, and other legal papers, were to be made according to it. As above a century had then passed since the first introduction of the new style, eleven days were suppressed, the third of September being called the fourteenth. By the same act, the beginning of the year was changed from March twenty-fifth to January first. A few persons born previously to 1752 have...
Pàgina 744 - Relying upon the skill of the hunter, and confident that his shot was fatal, several of the party dismounted and pursued the elk into the woods, where the wounded buck was soon overtaken. Finding his pursuers close upon him, the elk turned furiously upon the foremost, who only saved himself by springing into a thicket, which was impassable to the elk, whose enormous antlers, becoming so entangled in the vines as to be covered to their tips, he was held fast and blind-folded, and was despatched by...
Pàgina 842 - In proceeding down the river I visited these spots, and found at each that a valuable bed of manganese ore existed close to the surface of the country. It had been apparently cut through by the action of the streams and river before mentioned, leaving a. section of the bed of ore in their banks covered only by the debris of the banks themselves. Large quantities might have been carried away, but a few hand specimens only were taken, which sufficiently show the nature of the deposit, and are fair...
Pàgina 883 - Lichen springs up and flourishes, and, after a few years, acquires its full size. Here the rein-deer are pastured ; and, whatever may be the depth of snow during the long winters of that climate, these creatures have the power of penetrating it and obtaining their necessary food.
Pàgina 852 - ... would become fat in the course of ten days. In this plain there are wild animals in great numbers, particularly sheep of a large size, having horns, three, four, and even six palms in length. Of these the shepherds form ladles and vessels for holding their victuals; and with the same materials they construct fences for enclosing their cattle, and securing them against the wolves, with which, they say, the country is infested, and which likewise destroy many of these wild sheep or goats.
Pàgina 868 - Miifion, which, (as Mr. Smyth remarks in his description of that island,) is a palpable corruption of the Greek Ophion. It is sometimes stated, but I do not know upon what authority, that a few of these animals are still found upon the mountains of Murcia.* * I am not aware that the winter dress of the Moufflon has ever been described.
Pàgina 594 - Tassin (JB), Map showing the Sources of the Irawadi River and the Eastern branches of the Brahmaputra, comprising Assam and Manipur. Sheet Calcutta, 1830 Tassin (JB), Map of Simla. Sheet ... Calcutta, 1830 Tassin (JB), Map ef the City and Environs of Calcutta. Sheet. Calcutta, 1832 Tassin (JB), A New and Improved Map of the Provinces of Bengal and Behar, with Benares and adjoining Territories. In case. (2 copies) ... Calcutta, 1841 Tassin (JB), Map of Eastern Asia, comprising China, parts of Tibet...