The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, 第 1 巻Dawson, 1857 |
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abundant animal appearance Arctic Arctic Fox ARTICLE Audubon Azoic beak bear beds beneath bird body Brachiopoda brown brownish called Canada Carboniferous colour common continent coral covered deer deposit Devonian dorsal valve drift Duck ears eggs Europe feathers feet female fish formation fossil frequently genus geological grey grizzly bear habits hair head horns hunter inches Inhabits insects Lake lamellæ larvæ legs length limestone Lower Canada Lower Silurian male miles moose mountains musk ox Natural History nearly neck nest North America northern Nova Scotia observed ocean Ottawa portion Protichnites quadrupeds Red Fox remains resembling River rocks rounded sandstone season seen shales shell shore side skin snow sometimes species specimens spot squirrel Streptelasma striæ Strophomena surface tail teeth thickness tipped tree Trenton Trenton Limestone trilobites upper ventral valve wings winter wolf Woodpecker young
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461 ページ - In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lost...
121 ページ - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt Isles That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the Deep...
112 ページ - As she was fetching away the last piece, they levelled their muskets at the cubs, and shot them both dead ; and in her retreat they wounded the dam, but not mortally. It would have drawn tears of pity from any but unfeeling minds, to have marked the affectionate concern expressed by this poor beast, in the dying moments of her expiring young.
9 ページ - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
271 ページ - Is this the bound of power divine, " To animate an insect frame? " Or shall not He who moulded thine " Wake at his will the vital flame ? " Go, mortal! in thy reptile state, " Enough to know to thee is given; " Go, and the joyful truth relate ; " Frail child of earth ! high heir of heaven I" A question here naturally presents itself—Why are insects subject to these changes?
151 ページ - On breaking one of them, the young bird was found to be nearly hatched, but dead, as neither of the parents had been observed about the tree during the three or four days preceding, and were conjectured to have been shot. This tree had been occupied, probably by the same pair, for four successive years, in breeding time...
172 ページ - I observed them, in large bodies that continued to pass for six or eight minutes, and these again were followed by other detached bodies, all moving in the same south-east direction, till after six in the evening. The great breadth of front which this mighty multitude preserved, would seem to intimate a corresponding breadth of their breeding place, which by several gentlemen who had lately passed through part of it, was stated to me at several miles.
113 ページ - Though she was sorely wounded, and could but just crawl to the place where they lay, she carried the lump of flesh she had fetched away, as she had done...
171 ページ - They were' flying with great steadiness and rapidity at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep; and so close together that could shot have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several individuals.
259 ページ - ... covering, and start into day a winged bird, — what think you would be the sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! Amongst the learned, what surmises ! — what investigations ! Amongst the vulgar, what eager curiosity and amazement! All would be interested in the history of such an unheard-of phenomenon ; even the most torpid would flock to the sight of such a prodigy.