 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pages
...iv. sECT, n. Cook, Clerke, and Gore. th is part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be...in general, are not only rare as to the different species, but very scarce as to numbers; and these few are. so sny, that, in all probability, they are... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 pages
...SECT. ii. Cook, Clerke, and Gore. 89.7 this part of ihe continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be...in general, are not only rare as to the different species, but very scarce as to numbers ; and these few are so shy, that, in all probability, they are... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1815 - 476 pages
...says captain Cook, " the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." They also offered a sort of clothing, made of the bark of a tree, or some plant like hemp; weapons,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 526 pages
...continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be » matter of indifference." Birds, in general, are not only rare as to the different species, but very scarce as to numbers; and these few are so shy, that, in all probability, they are... | |
 | 1840 - 526 pages
...know of; and therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference.' Habits, Food, Reproduction, #c. — The sea-otter haunts sea-washed rocks, lives mostly in tho water,... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 522 pages
...know of; and therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference.' Habits, Food, Reproduction, ffe. — The sea-otter haunts sea-washed rocks, lives mostly in the water,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 1046 pages
...know of; and therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." Habits, Food, Reproduction, $c. — The sea-otter haunts sea-washed rocks, lives mostly in the water,... | |
 | James Cook - Voyages and travels - 1842 - 644 pages
...know of; and therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be...in general, are not only rare as to the different species, but very scarce as to numbers ; and these few are so shy, that in all probability they are... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Literary Criticism - 1866 - 488 pages
...any other we know of; and therefore the discovery of this part of the continent, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." He adds in a note, " The sea-otter skins are sold by the Russians to the Chinese at from sixteen to... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 556 pages
...of ; and therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may be met with, cannot be a matter of indifference." The Sea-Otter haunts sea-washed rocks, lives mostly in the water, and approximates to the seals more... | |
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The fur of these animals, as mentioned in the Russian accounts, is certainly softer and finer than that of any others we know of; and therefore the discovery of this part of the continent of North America, where so valuable an article of commerce may... 
