 ... houses, that they lay most of the wood crosswise, and nearly horizontal, and without any other order than that of leaving a hollow or cavity in the middle. When any unnecessary branches project inward they cut them off with their teeth, and throw...  Sporting Magazine - Page 1271796Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby - Zoology - 1829 - 418 pages
...unnecessary branches project inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken notion, that the wood work is first completed and then plastered ; for the whole of their... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Natural history - 1842 - 726 pages
...unnecessary branches project inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken notion, that the wood work is first completed and then plastered ; for the whole of their... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 pages
...unnecessary branches project inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken notion that the wood- work is first completed and then plastered ; for the whole of their... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 1036 pages
...unnecessary branches project inward they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken notion that the wood-work is first completed and then plastered ; for the whole of their houses,... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Natural history - 1853 - 744 pages
...unnecessary branches projec inward, they cut them off with their teeth and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof It is a mistaken notion, that the wood work is first completed and then plastered; for the whole of their houses... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - Nature - 1868 - 394 pages
...unnecessary branches project inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken notion that the woodwork is first completed and then plastered ; for the whole of their houses,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1186 pages
...unnecessary branches project inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken notion to suppose that the woodwork is first completed and then plasteced ; for the whole... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Zoology - 1871 - 622 pages
...unnecessary branches project inward, they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken notion to suppose that the woodwork is first completed and then plastered ; for the whole... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 608 pages
...unnecessary branches project inward they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken notion that the wood-work is first completed and then plastered ; for the whole of their houses,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Adventure and adventurers - 1881 - 372 pages
...unnecessary branches project inward they cut them off with their teeth, and throw them in among the rest, to prevent the mud from falling through the roof. It is a mistaken notion that the wood-work is first completed and then plastered ; for the whole of their houses,... | |
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