 | 1848 - 606 páginas
...The two tusks together weighed three hundred and sixty pounds English weight, and the head 2Г>(3 267 alone four hundred and fourteen pounds. The skin was...of the hair of this animal is in the Museum of the Rcyal College of Surgeons of London. It consists of two sorts, common hair and bristles ; and of each... | |
 | 1850 - 270 páginas
...tail and proboscis were not preserved. The skin, of which I possess three-fourths, is of a dark-gray colour, Covered with reddish wool and black hairs;...cleared the ground, upwards of thirty-six pounds of hair were collected, which the white bears had trodden while devouring the flesh.' Since then, other carcases... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 794 páginas
...tail and proboscis were not preserved. The skin, of which I possess three-fourths, is of a dark-gray colour, covered with reddish wool and black hairs;...cleared the ground, upwards of thirty-six pounds of hair were collected, which the white bears had trodden while devouring the flesh.' Since then, other carcases... | |
 | 1856 - 674 páginas
...base or root of the tusk to the point is three feet seven inches. The two tusks together weighed throe hundred and sixty pounds English weight, and the head...cleared the ground, upwards of thirty-six pounds of hair were collected, which the white bears had trodden while devouring the flesh.' Since then, other carcases... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1865 - 510 páginas
...been less than thirty feet. "Some idea of its size may be conceived from the fact that its two tusks weighed " three hundred and sixty pounds, English...the head alone four hundred and fourteen, pounds. A most interesting account of the discovery was furnished by Mr. Adams, Associate of the Academy of... | |
 | Percy Bolingbroke St. John - 1867 - 332 páginas
...proboscis were not preserved. The skin, of which I possess three-fourths, is of a dark grey-colour, covered with reddish wool and black hairs ; but the...cleared the ground, upwards of thirty-six pounds of hair were collected, which the white bears had trodden while devouring the flesh." Since then, other carcases... | |
 | 1850 - 632 páginas
...not preserved. The skin, of which I possess three-fourths, is of a dark-gray color, covered with a reddish wool and black hairs ; but the dampness of...to the shore ; and after having cleared the ground, upward of thirty-six pounds of hair were collected, which the white bears had trodden while devouring... | |
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Covered with reddish wool and black hairs; but the dampness of the spot where it had lain so long had in some degree destroyed the hair. The entire carcase, of which I collected the bones on the spot, was nine feet four inches high, and sixteen feet four... 