Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of ConstructionLongmans, Green and Company, 1866 - 632 páginas |
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... close and depressing in the extreme . Ventilation cannot be properly accomplished - the coolness is but the damp chilliness of a cellar , and brings no invigorating freshness to the languid frame , so that the edifice is only inhabited ...
... close and depressing in the extreme . Ventilation cannot be properly accomplished - the coolness is but the damp chilliness of a cellar , and brings no invigorating freshness to the languid frame , so that the edifice is only inhabited ...
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... close a proximity to the surface of the earth , lest the roof of its home might fall , and disclose the interior to the unwelcome light . The odour which has already been mentioned as belonging to all the members of this family , is in ...
... close a proximity to the surface of the earth , lest the roof of its home might fall , and disclose the interior to the unwelcome light . The odour which has already been mentioned as belonging to all the members of this family , is in ...
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... close proximity to each other . Perhaps this semi - sociality may be accounted for in a very simple manner , namely , the suitability of some particular piece of ground , to which the Foxes flock by instinct , and in which they drive as ...
... close proximity to each other . Perhaps this semi - sociality may be accounted for in a very simple manner , namely , the suitability of some particular piece of ground , to which the Foxes flock by instinct , and in which they drive as ...
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... close proximity to human beings , and has , in consequence , been gradually banished from the greater part of England . Forest after forest falls before the woodman's axe , mile upon mile of barren bog- land is drained and converted ...
... close proximity to human beings , and has , in consequence , been gradually banished from the greater part of England . Forest after forest falls before the woodman's axe , mile upon mile of barren bog- land is drained and converted ...
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... of about forty - five degrees with the horizon , and after descending for five or six feet , they take a sudden turn , and rise gradually upwards . Thousands upon thousands of these burrows are dug in close THE PRAIRIE DOG . 23 to face ...
... of about forty - five degrees with the horizon , and after descending for five or six feet , they take a sudden turn , and rise gradually upwards . Thousands upon thousands of these burrows are dug in close THE PRAIRIE DOG . 23 to face ...
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Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
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