 | 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... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pages
...torrent of liquid matter, ond hurling along in rapid succession opaque masses which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...direction, or diminish the rapidity of its course." The circulation is not the same in all species, from the discharging aperture being in different parts... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 604 pages
...The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but :ifu-r twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was...direction or diminish the rapidity of its course." Without the delicately-engraved figures it is impossible to convey an adequate idea of these extraordinary... | |
 | 1873 - 744 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 opening at short... | |
 | Seashore biology - 1847 - 282 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... | |
 | Southwood Smith - Hygiene - 1847 - 512 pages
...the animal kingdom long arrested my attention, hut after twenty-five minutes of constant ohservation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from fatigue, without...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... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 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... | |
 | David Landsborough - 1852 - 206 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...having seen the torrent for one instant change its deviation, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course." As not every one has... | |
 | Robert Bentley Todd - Anatomy - 1852 - 836 pages
...but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was obliged to withdraw my eye, from fat:gue, without having seen the torrent, 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... | |
 | 1854 - 428 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... | |
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... around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention, but, after twenty-five minutes' of constant observation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from fatigue, without having seen the torrent for one instant... 
