 ... of the larger seal or Haaf-fish ; for, in possessing an amphibious nature, they are enabled not only to exist in the ocean, but to land on some rock, where they frequently lighten themselves of their sea-dress, resume their proper shape, and with...  The Naturalist's Library: Mammalia - Page 285by Sir William Jardine - 1839Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...in the ocean, but Jo land on some rock, where they frequently lighten themselves of their sea-dress, resume their proper shape, and with much curiosity examine the nature of the upper world belonging to the human race. Unfortunately, however, each merman or merwoman pot lesses... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - Folklore - 1822 - 670 pages
...in the ocean, but to land on some rock, where they frequently lighten themselves of their sea-dress, resume their proper shape, and with much curiosity examine the nature of the upper world belonging to the human race. Unfortunately, however, each merman or merwoman, possesses... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...in the ocean, but to land on some rock, where they frequently lighten themselves of their sea-dress, resume their proper shape, and with much curiosity examine the nature of the upper world belonging to the human race. Unfortunately, however, each merman or merwoman possesses... | |
 | Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - Pinnipedia - 1839 - 406 pages
...purpose, enabling the animal to close at pleasure the orifice of the nostril."* • Roget, Bridpewater Treatise, vol. ii. p. 402. GROUP II. THE HERBIVOROUS...considerable pecuniary value to the individual who woald first present them with one of these far-famed animals ; and by many this offer was regarded... | |
 | Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - 1860 - 490 pages
...probably, too, of the syrens, those sea nymphs whose ini'lody charmed the entranced voyager to hi» destruction ! The fancies of the northern nations...readers a nearer view of these wondrous creatures. Not * Bibbert's Shetland blonds, 4to, p. 566. many yein ago the Wernerian Natural History Society (and... | |
 | Folklore - 1889 - 222 pages
...in the ocean, but to land on some rock, where they frequently lighten themselves of their sea-dress, resume their proper shape, and with much curiosity examine the nature of the upper world belonging to the human race. Unfortunately, however, each merman or merwoman possesses... | |
 | George Fraser Black - Ballads, Scots - 1901 - 318 pages
...in the ocean, but to land on some rock where they frequently lighten themselves of their sea-dress, resume their proper shape, and with much curiosity examine the nature of the upper world belonging to the human race. Unfortunately, however, each merman or merwoman possess... | |
 | Chad Arment - Cryptozoology - 2004 - 404 pages
...atmospheric air, it would be impossible for them to pass through the volume of waters that intervene between the submarine and the supramarine world, if...readers a nearer view of these wondrous creatures. Not many years ago the Wernerian Natural History Society (and to its praise we tell it) publicly offered... | |
| |
