Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 10

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Bishop's College Press, 1841

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Page 613 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Page 613 - And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 831 - The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology ; by Sir W.
Page 604 - ... established in Great Britain by act of Parliament ; and the dates of all deeds, and other legal papers, were to be made according to it. As above a century had then passed since the first introduction of the new style, eleven days were suppressed, the third of September being called the fourteenth. By the same act, the beginning of the year was changed from March twenty-fifth to January first. A few persons born previously to 1752 have...
Page 744 - Relying upon the skill of the hunter, and confident that his shot was fatal, several of the party dismounted and pursued the elk into the woods, where the wounded buck was soon overtaken. Finding his pursuers close upon him, the elk turned furiously upon the foremost, who only saved himself by springing into a thicket, which was impassable to the elk, whose enormous antlers, becoming so entangled in the vines as to be covered to their tips, he was held fast and blind-folded, and was despatched by...
Page 850 - Madras army. 2. In proceeding down the river I visited these spots, and found at each that a valuable bed of manganese ore existed close to the surface of the country. It had been apparently cut through by the action of the streams and river before mentioned, leaving a. section of the bed of ore in their banks covered only by the debris of the banks themselves. Large quantities might have been carried away, but a few hand specimens only were taken, which sufficiently show the nature of the deposit,...
Page 735 - As. Soc. Beng. X. p. 736. 38. On another new species of Pika (Lagomys) from the Himalaya. — Journ. As. Soc. Beng. X. p. 816. 39. A Monograph of the species of Wild Sheep.
Page 588 - Ttli ultimo with its enclosure, and in reply to state for the information of the Right Hon'ble the Governor General of India in Council, that...
Page 868 - ... that the latter is white in the centre, flanked with blackish. " According to M. Gmelin, this species is found only on the highest mountains of Persia. Its rutting season takes place in September, and lasts a month ; and the female yeans in March, producing two or three lambs at a time : the males, he informs us, are very quarrelsome amongst each other, insomuch that he had been at one place where the ground was completely strewed with horns that had been knocked off in their contests ; so that...
Page 626 - Cette idée, dit-il, que j'annonçai à l'Institut dès le mois de janvier 1796, m'ouvrit des vues toutes nouvelles sur la théorie de la terre ; un coup d'œil rapide jeté sur d'autres os fossiles me fit présumer tout ce que j'ai découvert depuis, et me détermina à me consacrer aux longues recherches et aux travaux assidus qui m'ont occupé depuis vingt ans.

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