 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pages
...shore, stumbling at every step, and stretched themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and with limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti. In less than five minutes two of the horses were drowned. The eels being five feet long, and pressing themselves against the belly... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus ctefiacus of the abdominal nerves. It is natural, that the effect felt by... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue,1 and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the...gymnoti. In less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the...gymnoti. ' In less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the...gymnoti. ' In less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus eceliants of the abdominal nerves. It is natural, that the effect felt by... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pages
...the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the...gymnoti. In less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...the ihore, stumbling at every step, and itretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti. In less than fire minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pages
...horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus ccrliacus of the abdominal nerves. It is natural, that the effect felt by... | |
 | 1822 - 194 pages
...the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themsejves on the sand exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the Electric Shocks of the...Gymnoti. In less than five minutes, two horses were drowned. The Eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horse, makes a... | |
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These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti. ' In less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet... 
