 | Samuel Ward - 1775 - 414 trang
...tables, a balfam for their wounds, and a medicine for their difeafes. It is alfo a certain prognofticator of the change of the wind ; if it comes to land, no weft wind is expected for fome tune ; and the contrary when it returns and keeps at fea. The fulmar,... | |
 | 1816 - 386 trang
...their tables, a balm for their wounds, and a medicine for their distempers." He says also, that it is a " certain prognosticator of the change of the wind...and the contrary when it returns and keeps the sea." These birds are extremely greedy and gluttonous, and will devour any floating putrid substances, such... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 716 trang
...tables, a bairn for their wounds, ad a medicine for their diftempers. It is alfo a Wtiio prognofticator of the change of the wind ; if it comes to land, no weft-wind is expcfted for fate time; and the contrary when it returns and fctps the fea. The whole... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 trang
...beds, a delicacy for their tables, a balm for their wounds, and a medicine for their distempers. It is also a certain prognosticator of the change of...peculiar faculty of spouting from their bills, to a considerable distance, a large quantity of pure oil ; which they do by way of defence, into the face... | |
 | Young lady - 1829 - 542 trang
...genus, is also stated, by Pennant, to be a certain prognosticator of the change of wind ; for if it come to land, no west wind is expected for some time ; and the contrary, if it keep at sea. The food of the Petrels consists of such gross and putrid substances as float in... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 trang
...their distempers." He adds, " that it is a certain prognostication of the change of wind ; if it come to land no west wind is expected for some time, and the contrary when it returns and keeps to sea." Its food is entirely fish, particularly that of the most oily nature, by which means it is... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 trang
...a balm for their wounds, and a medicine for their distempers. It is also a certain prognosticâtor of the change of the wind : if it comes to land, no west wind is expected for some lime; and the contrary when it returns and keeps the sea. The whole genus of petrels have a peculiar... | |
 | 1840 - 530 trang
...anil a rrx'J'eine for their distempers. The Fulmar is also a cer'ain prognosticator of the change of wind ; if it comes to land, no west wind is expected for some lime ; and the contrary when it returns and keeps the sea.' These birds are •aid to be salted for... | |
 | 1840 - 522 trang
...wounds, and a medicine for their distempers. The Fulmar is also a certain prognoslicator of the change of wind ; if it comes to land, no west wind is expected for some lime ; and the contrary when it returns and keeps the sea.' These birds are said to be sailed for winter... | |
 | 1840 - 524 trang
...and a medicine for their distempers. The Fulmar is also a certain prognosticate!' of the change of wind ; if it comes to land, no west wind is expected...and the contrary when it returns and keeps the sea.' These birds are said to be salted for winter provision by the inhabitants of Baffin's and Hudson'*... | |
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No bird is of such use to the islanders as this: the Fulmar supplies them with oil for their lamps, down for their beds, a delicacy for their tables, a balm for their wounds, and a medicine for their distempers. 
