 | 1860 - 528 pages
...following are the peculiaritie3 of the Crocodile : during the four winter months they eat nothing ; they are four-footed, and live indifferently on land...this is the one which from the smallest size grows to be the greatest ; for the egg of the crocodile is but little bigger than that of the goose, and the... | |
 | 1860 - 534 pages
...following are the peculiarities of the Crocodile : during the four winter months they eat nothing ; they are four-footed, and live indifferently on land or in the water. The female lays aud hatches her eggs ashore, passing the greater portion of the day on dry land, but at night retiring... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 528 pages
...nothing ; they are four-footed, and live indifferently on laud or in the water. The female lays aud hatches her eggs ashore, passing the greater portion of the day on dry land, hut at night retiring to the river, the water of which is wanner than the night-air and the dew. Of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 pages
...following are the peculiarities of the Crocodile : during the four winter months they eat nothing; they are four-footed, and live indifferently on land or in the water. The fernab lays and hatches her eggs ashore, passing the greater portion of the day on dry land, but at... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1861 - 632 pages
...peculiarities of the crocodile : During the fonr winter months they eat nothing ; they are fonr-footed, and live indifferently on land or in the water. The...this is the one which from the smallest size grows to be the greatest : for the egg of the crocodile is but little bigger than that of the goose, and the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1861 - 634 pages
...peculiarities of the crocodile: During the fonr winter months they eat nothing ; they are fonr-footed, and live indifferently on land or in the water. The...passing the greater portion of the day on dry land, bnt at night retiring to the river, the water of which is warmer than the night-air and the dew. Of... | |
 | Herodotus - 1862 - 548 pages
...following are the peculiarities of the crocodile : — During the four winter months they eat nothing;8 they are four-footed, and live indifferently on land...lays and hatches her eggs ashore, passing the greater small light-coloured Ursus Syriacus. — [GW] ' Herodotus is quite correct in saying that wolves in... | |
 | 1864 - 548 pages
...of the observation alluded to. The passage occurs in Book II. chapter 68, and is as follows : — " Of all known animals, this is the one which from the smallest size grows to be the greatest; for the egg of the crocodile is but liitle bigger than that of the goose, and the... | |
 | 1865 - 600 pages
...proportion, but when full-grown the creature measures seventeen cubits.' Herodotus's words are : ' Of all known animals this is the one which, from the smallest size, grows to be the greatest, for the egg of the crocodile is but little bigger than that of the goose, and the... | |
 | 1865 - 600 pages
...proportion, but when full-grown the creature measures seventeen cubits.' Herodotus's words are : ' Of all known animals this is the one which, from the smallest size, grows to be the greatest, for the egg of the crocodile is but little bigger than that of the goose, and the... | |
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The following are the peculiarities of the crocodile : — During the four winter months they eat nothing; they are four-footed, and live indifferently on land or in the water. The female lays and hatches her eggs ashore, passing the greater portion of... 
