 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...eggs little larger than those of a goose, and the young is at first in proportion to the sgg ; bat when grown up it reaches to the length of seventeen...cubits, and even more. It has the eyes of a pig, large teth, and projecting tusks, in proportion to the body : it is the only animal that has no tongue :... | |
 | Herodotus - 1858 - 658 pages
...young crocodile is in proportion to the egg ; yet when it is full grown, the animal measures frequently seventeen cubits and even more. It has the eyes of a pig, teeth large and tusk-like, of a size proportioned to its frame ; unlike any other animal, it is without... | |
 | 1860 - 534 pages
...crocodile is in proportion to the egg ; yet, when it is full-grown, the animal measures frequently seventeen cubits, and even more. It has the eyes of a pig, teeth large and tusk-like, of a size proportioned to its frame. Unlike any other animal, it is without... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pages
...crocodile is in proportion to the egg ; yet, when it is full-grown, the animal measures frequently seventeen cubits, and even more. It has the eyes of a pig, teeth large and tusk-like, of a size proportioned to its frame. Unlike any other animal, it is without... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 pages
...young crocodile is in proportion to the egg; yet, when it is fullgrown, the animal measures frequently seventeen cubits, and even more. " It has the eyes of a pig, teeth large and tusk-like, of a size proportioned to its frame. Unlike any other animal, it is without... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1861 - 634 pages
...yonng crocodile is iu proportion to the egg ; yet when it is full grown, the animal measures frequently seventeen cubits and even more. It has the eyes of a pig, teeth large and tusk-like, of a size proportioned to its frame; unlike any other animal, it is withont... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 560 pages
...young crocodile is in proportion to the egg ; yet when it is full grown, the animal measures frequently seventeen cubits and even more. It has the eyes of a pig, teeth large and tusk-like, of a size proportioned to its frame ; unlike any other animal, it is without... | |
 | Herodotus - 1880 - 660 pages
...young crocodile is in proportion to the egg ; yet when it is full grown, the animal measures frequently seventeen cubits and even more. It has the eyes of a pig, teeth large and tusk-like, of a size proportioned to its frame ; unlike any other animal, it is without... | |
 | Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 984 pages
...young crocodile is in proportion to the egg, yet when it is full grown, the animal measures frequently seventeen cubits, and even more. It has the eyes of a pig, teeth large and tusk-like, of a size proportioned to its frame; unlike any other animal, it is without... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 582 pages
...young crocodile is in proportion to the egg ; yet when it is fullgrown the animal measures frequently seventeen cubits, and even more. It has the eyes of a pig, teeth large and tusk-like, of a size proportioned to its frame. Unlike any other animal, it is without... | |
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... night-air and the dew. 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 young crocodile is in proportion to the egg ; yet... 
