Proceedings and Transactions of the Natural History Society of Glascow, Band 2;Band 7

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Seite 231 - Evandale, Whose limbs a thousand years have worn, What sullen roar comes down the gale, And drowns the hunter's pealing horn ? Mightiest of all the beasts of chase, That roam in woody Caledon, Crashing the forest in his race, The Mountain Bull comes thundering on. Fierce, on the hunter's quiver'd band, He rolls his eyes of swarthy glow, Spurns, with black hoof and horn, the sand, And tosses high his mane of snow.
Seite 221 - Said to me thus in words of eloquence," that the original prose story was written by an Arab in Persian. Loiseleur des Longchamps was, however, of opinion that the work was originally translated from Sanscrit into Persian ; and this view is to some extent borne out by the fact that two at least of the fables are clearly of old Indian origin.
Seite 231 - WHERE these high walls round wide enclosures run, Forbid the winter, and invite the sun, Wild strays the race of bisons, white as snow, Hills, dales, and woods re-echo when they low. No houses lodge them, and no milk they yield Save to their calves, nor turn the furrowed field; At pleasure through the spacious pastures stray, No keeper know, nor any guide obey, Nor round the dairy with swelled udders stand, Or, lowing, court the milk-maid's rosy hand.
Seite 128 - Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Seite 230 - Cadzow from the remotest antiquity ; and the probability is, that they are a part remaining of the establishment of our ancient British and Scottish kings. At present they are objects of great curiosity, both to the inhabitants and to strangers visiting the place. During the troubles consequent on the death of Charles I., and the usurpation of Cromwell, they were nearly extirpated ; but a breed of them having been retained for the Hamilton family, by Hamilton Dalzell, and by Lord EIphingstone, at...
Seite 225 - ... in this manner, — not by any means for the sake of the sight, but to observe the manner and habits of the animal under peculiar circumstances. When the shooters approached, they, as usual, scampered off in a body, then stood still, tossed their heads on high, and seemed to...
Seite 225 - The cows which had young, on the first * tug of war/ all retreated to the thickets where their calves were concealed ; from prudential motives, they are never, if possible, molested. These and other wild habits I can testify to be inherent in the race, and are well known to all who have an opportunity of acquainting themselves with them.
Seite lxvii - ... 6. The Society will issue yearly two octavo volumes of about 320 pages each. 7. An Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held on the last Tuesday in October. 8. Two stated Meetings of the Council shall be held each year, one on the last Tuesday of May, the other on the Tuesday preceding the day upon which the Annual General Meeting shall be held. The Secretary, on the request of three Members of the Council, shall call a special meeting of the...
Seite 3 - A second contribution towards a Catalogue of the Amphipoda and Isopoda of the Firth of Clyde and West of Scotland.
Seite 226 - Bewick, is, it seems, no longer permitted, for the present keeper of the park (1836) at one time possessed a wild cow, which he had taken when a calf, in consequence of the death of its mother : it was gentle, was milked as a cow, and bred freely with the common bull...

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