 | Alexander Barclay - Black people - 1827 - 596 pages
...mountains. I was concerned to think of the destruction I was causing in travelling through such a body of useful creatures, as I fancied that every time...numbers ? or, where are they come from ?' were questions every body asked, and no one could answer. It is well known the crabs deposit their eggs once a year,... | |
 | 1830 - 222 pages
...creatures, as I fancied that every timo my horse put down a foot, it was the loss of at least ten lives. 1 rode along the coast a distance of about fifteen miles,...produced in such numbers, or, where are they come from P were questions that every body asked, and no one could answer. It is well known the crabs deposite... | |
 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...fifteen miles, "and found it nearly the same the whole way ; only in some places they were more numerous, in others less so. Returning the following day, I...same as the day before. How have they been produced, and where do they come from ? were questions every body asked, and nobody could answer. It is well... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1830 - 612 pages
...fifteen miles,'and round it nearly the same the whole way ; only in some places they were more numerous, in others less so. Returning the following day, I...covered with them, the same as the day before. How nave they been produced, and where do they come from ? were questions every body asked, and nobody... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1830 - 598 pages
...the same the whole way ; only in borne places they were more numerous, in others less so. Keturning the following day, I found the road still covered...same as the day before. How have they been produced, ami where do they come from ? were questions every body asked, nnd nobody could answer. It is well... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...miles, and found it nearly the same the whole way, only that, in some places, they were more numerous, in others less so. Returning the following day, I...still covered with them, the same as the day before." t * This is the same species as that above described, which is called by Goldsmith the violet crab.... | |
 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...-me places they were more numerous, in others less so. Hemming the following day, I found the ruad still covered with them, the same as the day before How have they been produced, and where do they come from ? were questions every body asked, and nobody could answer. It in welt... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...miles, and found it nearly the same the whole way, only that, in some places, they were more numerous, in others less so. Returning the following day, I...still covered with them, the same as the day before. "f It is worthy of remark, that this prodigious multitude of young ones, were moving from a rock- bound... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1848 - 438 pages
...miles, and found it nearly the same the whole way, only that, in some places, they were more numerous, in others less so. Returning the following day, I...road still covered with them, the same as the day before."2 It is worthy of remark, that this prodigious multitude of young ones, were moving from a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...that in some places they were more numerous, and in others less so. Returning the following dav, 1 found the road still covered with them the sam'e as...where are they come from ? — were questions that everybody asked, and no one could answer. It is well known the crabs deposit their eggs once a year,... | |
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I was causing in travelling through such a body of useful creatures, as I fancied that every time my horse put down a foot, it was the loss of at least ten lives. I rode along the coast... 
