 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1861 - 160 Seiten
...hundred and fifty yards from the shore, there rose from the deep water, a solitary rock, about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf or truncated...* * The female Osprey allowed our boat to approach within two hundred yards or so, and then leaving her nest, sailed onwards with a circling flight, till... | |
 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1861 - 168 Seiten
...a hundred and fifty yards from the shore, there rose from the deep water a solitary rock, about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf or truncated...accumulation of many breeding seasons, as the Osprey returns fear after year to the same nest. How this heap of sticks withstood the winter gales without being... | |
 | Charles St. John - 1863 - 420 Seiten
...About a hundred and fifty yards from the shore there rose from the deep water a solitary rock about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf, or truncated...without being blown at once into the water, puzzled me. In a crevice of the rock was a small tuft or two of green, otherwise it was perfectly bare and steep.... | |
 | Charles St. John - 1882 - 538 Seiten
...yards from the shore there rose from the deep water a solitary rock about ten feet high, shaped liked a broken sugar-loaf, or truncated cone ; on the summit...without being blown at once into the water, puzzled me. In a crevice of the rock was a small tuft or two of green, otherwise it was perfectly bare and steep.... | |
 | Charles St. John - 1891 - 352 Seiten
...About a hundred and fifty yards from the shore there rose from the deep water a solitary rock about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf, or truncated...without being blown at once into the water, puzzled me. In a crevice of the rock was a small tuft or two of green, otherwise it was perfectly bare and steep.... | |
 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1870 - 250 Seiten
...a hundred and fifty yards from the shore, there rose from the deep water a solitary rock, about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf or truncated cone. On the summit of tLis was the nest, a pile of sticks of very great depth, evidently the accumulation of many breeding... | |
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... uttering cries of alarm at our approach. The nest was placed in a most curious situation. About a hundred and fifty yards from the shore there rose from the deep water a solitary rock about ten feet high, shaped like a broken sugar-loaf, or truncated... 