A History of the Earth And Animated Nature volume 6
A History of the Earth And Animated Nature volume 6
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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Newton (Sir Isaac), observes all birds, beasts, fishes, insects, trees, and vegetables, with their parts, grow from water ; and, by putrefaction, return to water again, i. 143. Dis- covered the true cause of the theory of the tides, 217. With peculiar sagacity discovered the cause of the remark- able tides at Tonquin, 222. Nicola Pesce, a celebrated diver ; his performances related by Kircher ; he often swam over from Sicily into Calabria, car- rying letters from the king ; frequently known to ...spend five days in the midst of the waves, without any other provisions than the fish he caught there, and ate raw, i. 251. 326 INDEX. Nightingale, a bird of the sparrow kind, iv. 255. Description of its melody by Pliny, 264. Its residence ; for weeks to- gether, undisturbed, it sits upon the same tree; its nest, and eggs ; its song in captivity not so alluring ; Gesner says Jt is possessed of a faculty of talking; story related by him in proof of this assertion ; its food, and in what manner they must be kept; manner of catching the nightingale, and ma- naging them when caught ; the black-cap, called by some the mock-nightingale, 265.
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