The North British Review, Tom 40W. P. Kennedy, 1864 |
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... remarkable , both on account of the time of year , and because this kind of duck is very rare in this region , and has never been known to breed in the neighbourhood : but all birds seem to have some means of calling and attracting ...
... remarkable , both on account of the time of year , and because this kind of duck is very rare in this region , and has never been known to breed in the neighbourhood : but all birds seem to have some means of calling and attracting ...
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" The change of colour in fish is very remarkable , and takes place with great rapidity . Put a living black burn trout into a white basin of water , and it becomes , within half an hour , of a light colour . Keep the fish living in a ...
" The change of colour in fish is very remarkable , and takes place with great rapidity . Put a living black burn trout into a white basin of water , and it becomes , within half an hour , of a light colour . Keep the fish living in a ...
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... whom we should wish to see more . Sir A. G..Cumming , in describing a fishing adventure among the rocks of the Findhorn , shows a remarkable power of bringing a scene before his reader's eyes , and making him understand and.
... whom we should wish to see more . Sir A. G..Cumming , in describing a fishing adventure among the rocks of the Findhorn , shows a remarkable power of bringing a scene before his reader's eyes , and making him understand and.
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... remarkable about your own trees . You have a sense of property in the sunset over your own hills . And there is a perpetual pleasure in the sight of a fair landscape , seen from your own door . Do not believe people who say that all ...
... remarkable about your own trees . You have a sense of property in the sunset over your own hills . And there is a perpetual pleasure in the sight of a fair landscape , seen from your own door . Do not believe people who say that all ...
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... remarkable result . It does not follow that , if the chief fundamental laws and principles of a science are known , the development of them is an easy matter . Take , for instance , the law of gravitation . It is scarcely possible to ...
... remarkable result . It does not follow that , if the chief fundamental laws and principles of a science are known , the development of them is an easy matter . Take , for instance , the law of gravitation . It is scarcely possible to ...
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