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... so mystedecreasing , while in Tasmania not one remains . rious and sudden
had been its extinction from the But it is not our present purpose to enter on the
islands where it was alleged to have been found , discussion . of the changes
which ...
... so mystedecreasing , while in Tasmania not one remains . rious and sudden
had been its extinction from the But it is not our present purpose to enter on the
islands where it was alleged to have been found , discussion . of the changes
which ...
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In fact , it remains doubtful , though some may regard it as heresy , whether ,
since we have deliberately tasted of fine varieties ripened at home by
experienced growers , that our opinion is much altered for the better and in favour
of the pine .
In fact , it remains doubtful , though some may regard it as heresy , whether ,
since we have deliberately tasted of fine varieties ripened at home by
experienced growers , that our opinion is much altered for the better and in favour
of the pine .
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... sented on breaking it up into slabs would necesbestows this name upon the
Scarlet Tanager ( Py . sarily occur — the casts of the tracks would become ranga
rubra , Swains ) ; but I think that the descripisolated , like the fossil remains of any
...
... sented on breaking it up into slabs would necesbestows this name upon the
Scarlet Tanager ( Py . sarily occur — the casts of the tracks would become ranga
rubra , Swains ) ; but I think that the descripisolated , like the fossil remains of any
...
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... in a railroad cutting in their most lively condition . - C . F . W . , St . Anne ' s a
bed of river gravel . The tusk has been broken , Heath , Chertsey . but sufficient
remains to show it must have been sixteen or seventeen feet in length . It feels
hard , ...
... in a railroad cutting in their most lively condition . - C . F . W . , St . Anne ' s a
bed of river gravel . The tusk has been broken , Heath , Chertsey . but sufficient
remains to show it must have been sixteen or seventeen feet in length . It feels
hard , ...
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... that the probably upon the same coast upon which the necessary isola
Carthaginian explorer found them ; the remains tion of explorers of that
prodigious bird , the Æpyornis , have been should render | disinterred in
Madagascar — the very ...
... that the probably upon the same coast upon which the necessary isola
Carthaginian explorer found them ; the remains tion of explorers of that
prodigious bird , the Æpyornis , have been should render | disinterred in
Madagascar — the very ...
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| Title | Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 3. köide |
| Editors | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor |
| Publisher | Robert Hardwicke, 1868 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 veeb. 2008 |
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