False Stories CorrectedSamuel Wood & Sons, no. 261, Pearl-Street and Samuel S. Wood & Company, no. 212 Market-St., Baltimore, 1822 - African Americans - 41 pages |
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... four legs , wings , and a beak : the upper part represented an eagle , and the lower a lion ; they supposed it to watch over gold mines , hidden treas- ures , & c . This animal was conse- crated to the sun . The Griffon is frequently ...
... four legs , wings , and a beak : the upper part represented an eagle , and the lower a lion ; they supposed it to watch over gold mines , hidden treas- ures , & c . This animal was conse- crated to the sun . The Griffon is frequently ...
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THE Salamander has a short cy- lindrical tail , four toes on the fore- feet , and a naked porous body.- This animal has been said , even in the Philosophical Transactions , to live in the fire ; but this is found to be fabulous . It is ...
THE Salamander has a short cy- lindrical tail , four toes on the fore- feet , and a naked porous body.- This animal has been said , even in the Philosophical Transactions , to live in the fire ; but this is found to be fabulous . It is ...
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... four toes on each of the fore - feet , and no advan- tage of conformation making up its deficiencies , its manner of living must , as is indeed the case , be very different from that of other lizards . It walks very slowly ; far from ...
... four toes on each of the fore - feet , and no advan- tage of conformation making up its deficiencies , its manner of living must , as is indeed the case , be very different from that of other lizards . It walks very slowly ; far from ...
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