 | 1826 - 646 pages
...respiration most bave required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach ?' — p. 388. The habits here ascribed by Mr. Conybeare to the Plesiosaurus correspond very closely... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1829 - 704 pages
...its respiration required frequent access of air, that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea- weed, and raising... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...respiration must have requiled frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like : the swan, and, occasionally,...the fish which happened to float within its reach." The Quarterly reviewer ot 1826, thinks that it must have very closely resembled the lestudo ferox,... | |
 | 1832 - 542 pages
...frequent acress of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the •wan, and, occasionally, darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach." The Quarterly reviewer of 1826, thinks that it must have very closely resembled the Testudo ferox,... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air,) that it swam upon, or near the surface; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air,) that it swam upon, or near the surface ; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach? It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising... | |
 | 1840 - 538 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and, raising... | |
 | 1830 - 596 pages
...respiration must have, required frequent access of air), that-it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...it down at the fish which happened to float within reach ? It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed,... | |
 | 1840 - 522 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to lloat wilhin its reach? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among... | |
 | 1843 - 282 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface ; arching hack its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach? It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the seaweed, and raising... | |
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