United States Magazine, Bind 3Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith J.M. Emerson & Company, 1856 |
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... young occasionally in Pennsylvania and New Jersey , and abundantly in all the Southern States . For this purpose it seeks the recesses of deep and generally damp woods or swamps , rarely selecting a location on the higher grounds . Its ...
... young occasionally in Pennsylvania and New Jersey , and abundantly in all the Southern States . For this purpose it seeks the recesses of deep and generally damp woods or swamps , rarely selecting a location on the higher grounds . Its ...
Side 21
... young . In a very inter- esting volume on the Birds of Jamaica by Mr. P. H. Gosse , an excellent naturalist , who long resided in that island , various facts and in- stances are stated , tending to disprove Mr. Au- dubon's conclusion ...
... young . In a very inter- esting volume on the Birds of Jamaica by Mr. P. H. Gosse , an excellent naturalist , who long resided in that island , various facts and in- stances are stated , tending to disprove Mr. Au- dubon's conclusion ...
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... young . The end ; legs , rather long . female deposits her eggs in a slight excavation , in a dead log or stump , or on the bare ground , providing no nest whatever . The young are at first covered with a pale yellowish down , soon ...
... young . The end ; legs , rather long . female deposits her eggs in a slight excavation , in a dead log or stump , or on the bare ground , providing no nest whatever . The young are at first covered with a pale yellowish down , soon ...
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... young naturalist , who visited California some years since , represented this Vulture as abundant in the vicinity of Mazatlan , and at various points about the Gulf of Cali- fornia . It appeared to live in the city just mentioned , and ...
... young naturalist , who visited California some years since , represented this Vulture as abundant in the vicinity of Mazatlan , and at various points about the Gulf of Cali- fornia . It appeared to live in the city just mentioned , and ...
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... young naturalist now resident at Monterey , and from it we beg leave to present the following ex- tracts : So shall we , Mr. Taylor , and very cheerfully second your motion . This is one of several glimpses of the Condor in North ...
... young naturalist now resident at Monterey , and from it we beg leave to present the following ex- tracts : So shall we , Mr. Taylor , and very cheerfully second your motion . This is one of several glimpses of the Condor in North ...
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Side 64 - ... the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
Side 161 - Of sun or moon or star, throughout the year, Or man or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Side 282 - FIRST VOICE. But why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind? SECOND VOICE. The air is cut away before, And closes from behind. Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high Or we shall be belated : For slow and slow that ship will go, When the Mariner's trance is abated.
Side 132 - River. Around us the whole scene had one main striking feature, which was that of terrible convulsion. Parallel to its length, the ridge was split into chasms and fissures, between which rose the thin, lofty walls, terminated with slender minarets and columns.
Side 52 - They came to my house in the beginning of the onset and, by their violent endeavors to break open doors and windows with axes and hatchets, awakened me out of sleep; on which I leaped out of bed, and running toward the door, perceived the enemy making their entrance into the house.
Side 548 - Brother, accept this token of our esteem — always wear it for our sakes, and when again you have the power to save a poor woman from death and torture — think of this, and of us, and fly to her relief and her rescue.
Side 132 - You say that you love the whites; why have you killed so many already this spring? You say that you love the whites, and are full of many expressions of friendship to us; but you are not willing to undergo the fatigue of a few days
Side 477 - The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears.
Side 390 - As the success of my experiment gives me great hopes that such boats may be rendered of great importance to my country, to prevent erroneous opinions and give some satisfaction to the friends of useful improvements, you will have the goodness to publish the following statement of facts. I left New York on Monday, at...
Side 132 - I believe that a moment's thought would have made us let him continue his way unharmed; but we carried out the law of this country, where all animated nature seems at war, and, seizing him immediately, put him in at least a fit place, — in the leaves of a large book, among the flowers we had collected on our way.