| Science - 1825 - 452 pages
...every where around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested ray attention, but, after twenty-five minutes of constant...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Science - 1825 - 448 pages
...sponge fully into view, I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth, from a circular cavity, an impetuous...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Science - 1825 - 440 pages
...scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my attention, but, after twenty-five minutes ol'coiistaut observation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued toi watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Science - 1826 - 628 pages
...hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed every where around. The btauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom,...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Peter Mark Roget - Biology - 1834 - 660 pages
...of liquid matter, and hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Robert Bentley Todd - Anatomy - 1849 - 924 pages
...alter twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was obliged to withdraw itiy eye, from fat gne, without having seen the torrent, for one instant, change its direction, or di ninish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course ; I continued to watch the same orifice,... | |
| Peter Mark Roget - Biology - 1836 - 442 pages
...sponge fully into view, I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this living fountain, vomiting forth, from a circular cavity, an impetuous...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1836 - 436 pages
...vhere around. Thn beauty and novelty of such a cene in the animal kingdom long arrested my atteniou ; but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation,...without having seen the torrent for one instant change ts direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the apidity of its course. I continued to watch... | |
| 1842 - 1008 pages
...and hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, •which it strewed everywhere around. T^ia beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| American literature - 1845 - 606 pages
...sea-water, " I beheld," says he, " for the first time the splendid spectacle of this living fountain vomiting forth from a circular cavity an impetuous...direction or diminish the rapidity of its course." Without the delicately-engraved figures it is impossible to convey an adequate idea of these extraordinary... | |
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