Bulletin ..., Volumen1C.J. Maynard, 1889 - 114 páginas |
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Página 76 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Página 70 - I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the "plan of creation,
Página 7 - A true announcement of the law of creation, if a man were found worthy to declare it, would carry art up into the kingdom of nature, and destroy its separate and contrasted existence.
Página 86 - Winnepesaukee, is doubtless the most beautiful of all the small sheets of water in New England ; and it has been pronounced by one gentleman , no less careful in his words than cultivated in his tastes, more charmingly embosomed in the landscape than any lake of equal size he had ever seen in Europe or America.
Página 70 - A few naturalists, endowed with much flexibility of mind, and who have already begun to doubt the immutability of species, may be influenced by this volume; but I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality.
Página 104 - No mountain of New Hampshire has interested our best artists more. It is everything that a New Hampshire mountain should be. It bears the name of an Indian chief. It is invested with traditional and poetic interest. In form it is massive and symmetrical. The forests of its lower slopes are crowned with rock that is sculptured into a peak with lines full of haughty energy, in whose gorges huge shadows are entrapped, and whose cliffs blaze with morning gold.
Página 40 - I say nearly, for this was broken through on the southern end. and the creek water flowed in; thus the slight inland tide rose and fell among the nests. "The nests were, as a rule, not over two feet apart, measuring from their base, but they were generally constructed in groups of from three to seven or eight, each one being joined to one or two of the others at the base, ofttimes for a foot or more.
Página 41 - Thus we could judge that the birds had laid all the eggs that they would that season. We estimated that there were in the neighborhood of 2,000 nests, and in all of these we found only some 50 sets of 2 eggs, and three in one case only.
Página 76 - Catalogne of the Birds of Coos Co., NH, and Oxford Co., Me., with annotations relative to the breeding habits, migrations, etc. By C. J Maynard. With Notes by Win. Brewster. < Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hilt., xiv, for Oct., 1871, pub. 1872, pp. 356-385. 164 spp., very fnlly annotated, with fleld-notes of habits, movements, ct«.
Página 40 - ... nests were surrounded by water, and were built on a kind of peninsula which had water on three sides of it. The nests were constructed wholly of marl piled layer upon layer, without waiting for any layer to dry. for in some cases the bottom was as soft as the top. In scooping...