 | 1821 - 734 páginas
...been much larger than any of the seven rhinoceroses which my party shot, one of which measured eleven feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail. The skull and horn excited great curiosity at the Cape. Most were of opinion that it was all we should... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1836 - 648 páginas
...the root ................ I 1J The native who killed this bison, said it measured seven cubits (Hi', feet) from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and was 5 feet 7 inches high ; the colour being that of buffalo, or grayish black. The Head of a Bhinoceros.... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1836 - 566 páginas
...Circumference at the root 1 H The native who killed this bison, said it measured seven cubits (10J feet) from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and was 5 feet 7 inches high ; the colour being that of buffalo, or grayish black. The Head of a Rhinoceros.... | |
 | 1841 - 456 páginas
...at the end of seven years. Pallas mentions an adult female which was only six feet nine inches from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail; and Dr. Richardson mentions another female as having been accompanied by two cubs, (therefore unquestionably... | |
 | James Hamilton Fennell - 1841 - 610 páginas
...at the end of seven years. Pallas mentions an adult female which was only six feet nine inches from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail ; and Dr. Richardson mentions another female as having been accompanied by two cubs, and, therefore, unquestionably... | |
 | 1841 - 404 páginas
...the butts of our rifles, finding it, even then, no easy matter to overcome him. He was almost four feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and at least two feet and a half high. Brian was the first to blame himself for his rashness ; for had... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1853 - 332 páginas
...bright yellow of the ground on which they lie, must strike every beholder. His body usually measures six feet, from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail ; the head is smooth ; the ears are small and rounded ; the legs are nearly white in the inside, and... | |
 | 1833 - 632 páginas
...however, farther west. One which was killed in Kentucky, in 1819, measured four feet and five inches from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and two feet seven inches in height. Around the body it measured two feet and a half. NOTICES OF ANIMATED... | |
 | William Baird - 1858 - 642 páginas
...inoffensive creatures. The great kangaroo. Macropui major, is the largest species, measuring five or six feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and when sitting appears about the height of a man. To the aborigines of Australia, the kangaroo forms... | |
 | John George Wood - 1865 - 842 páginas
...also called, is one of the largest of the Ox tribe, measuring no less than ten feet £ inches from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and from six feet to six feet R inches in height at the shoulders. So confident are even the tiger-dreading... | |
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... feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, eight feet around the body just behind the fore legs, and weighed from fifteen to seventeen hundred pounds. 
