 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1797 - 612 pages
...animals of the fame fpecies. Every one knows, for inflance, that mares are lower before than (Inllions. What deceives us in the giraffe, and occafions this...withers, which may exceed that of the crupper from iixteen to twenty inches, according to the age of the animal ; and which, when it is feeii at a diftance... | |
 | English literature - 1798 - 752 pages
...fpecies. Every one knows, for inltance, that mares are lower before than Itallions. What deceive» us in the giraffe, and occafions this apparent difference...the crupper from fixteen to twenty inches, according tq the age of çhe animal; and which, when it is feen at a diftance in motion, gives the appearance... | |
 | George Barrington - Canary Islands - 1810 - 512 pages
...some de~ ception, so that it appears considerably higher before than it really is, these exceeding the Crupper from fixteen to twenty inches, according to the age of the animal. Viewing the giraffe standing still, as the fore part of its body is much larger than the hind part,... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 1178 pages
...instance, that mares are lower before than stallions. What deceives us in the Giraffe, and occasions this apparent difference between the legs, is the...withers, which may exceed that of the crupper from sixteen to twenty inches, according to the age of the animal; and which, when it is seen at a distance... | |
 | Birds - 1834 - 700 pages
...instance, that mares are lower before than stallions. What deceives us in the giraffe, and occasions this apparent difference between the legs, is the...withers, which may exceed that of the crupper from sixteen to twenty inches, according to the age of the animal ; and which, when it is seen at a distance... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...instance, that mares are lower before than stallions. What deceives us in the Giraffe, and occasions the apparent difference between the legs, is the height...withers, which may exceed that of the crupper from sixteen to twenty inches, according to the age of the animal ; and which, when it is seen at a distance... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...stallions. What deceives us in the Giraffe, and occasions the apparent difference between the leg«, oomy grandeur of the forest, the gigantic size and venerable antiquity o sixteen to twenty inches, according to the age of the animal ; and which, when it is seen at a distance... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1857 - 756 pages
...instance, that mares are lower before than stallions What deceives us in the Giraffe, and occasions this apparent difference between the legs, is the...withers, which may exceed that of the crupper from sixteen to twenty inches, according to the age of the animal ; and which, when it is seen at a distance... | |
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Giraffe, and occasions this apparent difference between the legs, is the height of the withers, which may exceed that of the crupper from sixteen to twenty inches, according to the age of the animal; and which, when it is seen at a distance in motion,... 