The Teacher's Manual of Object Lessons, EtcJ. Heywood, 1873 - 144 Seiten |
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America animal Ashton-under-Lyne Bactrian camel bark birds blackboard body bones bookbinding Britain button called cheese cinnamon cocoa colour copper covered Description Dunstable eagle earth eggs eight Embroidery stitching employed England Europe explain eyes feet female fibres fish flax flowers fore frog gauze gold Greenland Gutta Percha Habits hair head heat hence hind holes illustrate inches India iron jaws JOHN HEYWOOD JOHN LOMAX leather leaves lesson light manufac manufacture Mercury metal millions of miles Mole nail nests Notice palm Percha pieces plant pounds weight prey procured pupils quicksilver reference Remarks rennet reptiles round the sun Safety Lamp salmon seal shank sheets skeleton sketch skin soil sometimes squirrel steel stem Stilton cheese Straw Plait substance swallow tail tanning teacher teeth thick tobacco toes tree turtle Uranus varieties whale wings wood zinc
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Seite 15 - Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea : part single, or with mate, Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold...
Seite 50 - states, that " in the southern parts of Africa an area of nearly two thousand square miles might be said literally to be covered with them. When driven into the sea by a north-west wind they formed upon the shore for fifty miles a bank three or four feet high, and when the wind was south-east the stench was so powerful as to be smelt at the distance of 150 miles.
Seite 50 - Africa (in 1784 and 1797) is still more striking: an area of nearly two thousand square miles might be said literally to be covered by them. When driven into the sea by a...
Seite 97 - ... territory abounds. One evening, a cooper having placed a new tub under a dropping spring, to try if it would hold water, found it so heavy that he could scarcely move it.
Seite 88 - U almost confined to Lincolnshire, Holderness, and a few other districts of England, of which the moist alluvial soil is particularly suited to it. In cultivating H., it is very necessary to have the soil so rich, and to sow the seed at such a season, that the plants shall grow rapidly at first, as they thus form long fibres. A crop of short scrubby H. is almost worthless. The finer kinds of H.
Seite 53 - Spey is equal to the weight of mutton annually yielded to the butcher by each of several of the smaller counties. The diminution in the supply of food caused by the decay of the Tweed fisheries, is about 200,000 Ibs. a year. And...
Seite 50 - Europe are occasionally visited by their destructive hosts, and in the south of France, rewards are paid for the collection of locusts and of their eggs. The eggs are found cemented together in little masses in the ground. The insects themselves are taken by means of a stout cloth, the edge of which is made to sweep over the surface of the ground, and the locusts thus thrown together are quickly gathered into sacks.
Seite 35 - The ears are well formed to receive sounds ; and are constantly bent forward. The tongue has very peculiar properties, and can be so tapered as to enter the ring of a very small key. Its taste and smell are...
Seite 39 - Chinese catch them with the sucking-fish (Remora), which is put into the water with a string tied to its tail. The remora darts at the turtle, to which it firmly adheres by means of its sucking apparatus, and both fish and turtle are then drawn into the boat. Mr. Darwin thus describes the capture of this turtle at...
Seite 30 - An act of the English parliament, in 1638, prohibiting the use of any other material for hatmaking, contributed to the rapid diminution of the number of beavers in the parts of North America from which their skins were then obtained. During great part of the 18th and the earlier part of the 19th c., the number of B.