 Chatsworth, with the print of the toad upon it, and tradition of the manner in which it was found. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, there is an account of a toad found alive and healthy in the heart of a very thick elm, without the smallest...  The Natural and Civil History of Vermont - Page 152by Samuel Williams - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Tibullus - 1759 - 468 pages
...refembling facred Groves, Not Parian Pavements, nor gay-gilt Aleoves, Not ly painted, but ftained it. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, there is an Account how the latter Procefs may be performed. Pliny tells us, that Mamurra, who commanded Caefar's Artificers... | |
 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...Chatfworth, with the print ofthe toad upon it, and a tradition of the manner in which it was found. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences there is an account of a toad found alive and healthy in the heart of a very thick elm. In the year 1731 there was another... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1792 - 396 pages
...notwithftanding they are naturally voracious, yet they can fubfift without eating a confiderable time. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, there is an account of a bitch, who having been accidentally left in a country-houfe, fubfifted 40 days without any other... | |
 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1797 - 556 pages
...Chatfworth, with the print of the toad upon it, and a tradition of the manner in -which it was found. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences there is an account of a toad found alive and healthy in the heart of a very thick elm. In the year 1731 there was another... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - Anecdotes - 1804 - 432 pages
...in natural history, of toads being found in the hearts of trees, and in solid rocks, wholly enclosed and shut up from the air, and all appearance of food,...the year 1731, a toad was found in the heart of an pld oak, near Nantz, without any visible entrance to its habitation. From the ; p 4 size size of the... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1811 - 460 pages
...notwithstanding they are naturally voracious, yet they can subsist without eating a considerable time. In the Memoirs ' of the Academy of Sciences, there is an account of a -bitch, who having been accidentally left in a cotmtry-hotisej subsisted 4O days without any other... | |
 | Albius Tibullus - 1812 - 386 pages
...luxury ; for they, not content with the native colours of the marble, not only painted but stained it. In the ' Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences,' there is an account how the latter process may be performed. Pliny tells us that Mamurra, who commanded ( >.i:snr's artificers... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1824 - 458 pages
...in natural history of toads being found in the hearts of trees, and in solid rocks, wholly enclosed and shut up from the air and all appearance of food,...there is an account, that, in the year 1731, a toad wan found in flu; heart of an old oak, near Nantz, without any risible entrance to its habitation.... | |
 | William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - Anecdotes - 1824 - 392 pages
...in natural history, of toads being found in the hearts of trees, and in solid rocks, wholly enclosed and shut up from the air, and all appearance of food,...of Sciences there is an account, that, in the year ll l 73 l , a toad was found in the heart of an old oak, near Nantz, without any visible entrance to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Zoology - 1824 - 510 pages
...Chatsworth with the print.of the toad upon it, and a tradition of the manner in which it was found. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences there is an account of a toad foimd alive VOL. iv. — z and healthy in the heart of a very thick elm, without the smallest... | |
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