 | Popular history - 1843 - 434 páginas
...and greedily swallows great meuthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood...however, certain that Tortoises can subsist even on those islands where there is no other water than what falls during the few rainy days in the year.... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 páginas
...a minute. The inhabitants say that each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood offhe water, and then returns to the lower country ; but...however certain that tortoises can subsist even on those islands where there is no other water than what falls dttrînç a few rainy days in the year.... | |
 | 1843 - 524 páginas
...greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say that each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood...frequency of these visits. The animal probably regulates mem according to the nature of the food which it has consumed. It is however certain that tortoises... | |
 | 1850 - 602 páginas
...to Mr. Darwin, the inhabitants say, that each visitor stays three or four days in the neighborhood of the water, and then returns to the lower country...differed in their accounts respecting the frequency of those visits. Mr. Darwin thinks that the animal probably regulates them according to the nature of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 páginas
...and greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood...then returns to the lower country; but they differed respecting the frequency of these visits. The animal probably regulates them according to the nature... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1850 - 308 páginas
...greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say that each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood...however, certain, that Tortoises can subsist even on those islands where there is no other water than what falls during a few rainy days in the year. "... | |
 | 1850 - 602 páginas
...to Mr. Darwin, the inhabitants say, that each visitor stays three or four days in the neighborhood of the water, and then returns to the lower country...differed in their accounts respecting the frequency of those visits. Mr. Darwin thinks that the animal probably regulates them according to the nature of... | |
 | 1851 - 640 páginas
...According to Mr. Darwin, the inhabitants say that each visitor stays three or four days in the neighborhood of the water, and then returns to the lower country...differed in their accounts respecting the frequency of those visits. Mr. Darwin thinks that the animal probably regulates them according to the nature of... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1852 - 446 páginas
...at the rate of about ten in a minute. According to Mr. Darwin, the inhabitants say that each visitor stays three or four days in the neighbourhood of the...differed in their accounts respecting the frequency of those visits. Mr. Darwin thinks that the animal probably regulates them according to the nature of... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 564 páginas
...and greedily swallows great mouthfuls, at the rate of about ten in a minute. The inhabitants say each animal stays three or four days in the neighbourhood...the water, and then returns to the lower country. .... For some time after a visit to the springs, the urinary bladder of these animals is distended... | |
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It is, however, certain, that tortoises can subsist even on those islands where there is no other water than what falls during a few rainy days in the year. 
