 | 1850 - 498 Seiten
...which were before quite invisible. " These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inchea long, which it moved about... | |
 | 1850 - 454 Seiten
...which were before quite invisible. " These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms was iu the .form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which it moved about... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1851 - 332 Seiten
...from holes that were before invisibla These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and, in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time,...sluggish, that they may be mistaken for pieces of rock; and are generally of a dark colour, from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 382 Seiten
...were before quite invisible. " These animals (he says) are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which it moved about... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 346 Seiten
...before quite invisible. " These animals," he says " are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which it moved about... | |
 | Fanny Osborne - 1852 - 394 Seiten
...from holes that were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and, in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time,...sluggish, that they may be mistaken for pieces of rock ; and are generally of a dark color, from four to five inches long, and two or three round. When... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - 1854 - 472 Seiten
...surface which were before quite invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. "The most common of the worms at Loo-Choo (an island in the Pacific, east of China) was in the form of a star, with... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 550 Seiten
...from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms, or tentacula, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 530 Seiten
...from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms, or tentacles, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1856 - 372 Seiten
...were before quite invisible. " These animals (he says) are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which it moved about... | |
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... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of... 
