Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick: To which is Added The Calendar of FloraR. and J. Dodsley, 1762 - 391 trang |
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Trang 109 - In the same manner, the female Carolina yellow-hammer, in the month of September, while the rice on which she feeds is laid up in granaries, goes towards the south, and returns in the spring to seek...
Trang 381 - Berkfhire, afiured him, that a field always lying under water, of about four acres, that was occupied by his father when he was a boy, was covered with a kind of grafs that maintained five...
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