They stood fifteen or twenty yards distant from the water, on a high marsh, about fear feet perpendicular above the water. I knew them to be the nests of the crocodile, having had a description of them before; and now expected a furious and general attack,... A Nature Wooing at Ormond by the Sea - Page 164by Willis Stanley Blatchley - 1902 - 245 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1793 - 702 pages
...much like rattlefnakee in colour. I now loft fight ot my enemy again. Still keeping clofe along fhore, on turning a point or projection of the river bank, at once I beheld a great number of hillocks or (mall pyramids, refembling haycocks, ranged like an encampment along the banks. Thiy flood fifteen... | |
| 1795 - 292 pages
...rattlefnakes in colour. I now loft fight of my enemy again. StUl .i Still keeping clofe aiong more, on turning a point or projection of the river bank, at once I beheld a great number of hillocks, or fmall pyramid?, refembling •ay<ocks, ranged like an encampment along the banks. They ftood fifteen... | |
| Caledonian bee - 1795 - 302 pages
...like rajtlefnakes in coIoar. I now loft fight of my enemy again. . Still keeping clofe along Iho're, on turning a point or projection of the river bank, at once I beheld a great niimber of hillocks, or fmall pyramids, refembling hay-cocks, ranged like an encampment along the banks.... | |
| 1799 - 422 pages
...like rattle fnakes in colour. I now loft fight of my enemy again. Still keeping clofe along fliore, on turning a point> or projection of the river bank, at once I beheld a ¿rest number of hilloiks, or fmall pyramids, refembling hay cocks, ranged, like an encampment along... | |
| 460 pages
...mjrj<l to dump my courage ; and it iicmc4 ,wQ jfiudi for one of my ler Still keeping clofe along more, on turning a point or projection of the river bank, at once I -beheld a great number of hillocks, or fmall pyramids, refemblirrg hay-cocks,- ranged like an encampment along the banks. They flood fifteen... | |
| 1809 - 572 pages
...detailed by Bartram : " On turning- a point or projection of the river bank," says this traveller, "at once I beheld a great number of hillocks, or small...distant from the water, on a high marsh, about four feet per. pcndicular above the .water ; I knew them to be the nests of the crocodile, having had a description... | |
| 1793 - 624 pages
...like rattlefnakes in colour. I now lolt iij;lit of my enemy again. " Still keeping clofe along {hore, on turning a point or projection of the river bank, at once I beheld a great number oi hillocks or fmall pyramids, refembling .hay-cocks, ranged like an encampment along the banks. They... | |
| 1822 - 494 pages
...among the heathen gods far before jEolus, the ruler of the tempests. BALDWIN. ALLIGATORS OF FLORIDA. On turning a point or projection of the river bank,...encampment along the banks. They stood fifteen or twenty yarde distant from the water, on a high marsh, about four feet perpendicular above the water. I knew... | |
| 1826 - 638 pages
...now lost sight of my enemy again. Still keeping close along shore, on turning a point or pn* jection of the river bank, at once I beheld a great number...feet perpendicular above the water. I knew them to IK the nests of the crocodile, having had a description of them before ; and now expected a furious... | |
| William Bartram - 1955 - 470 pages
...much like rattlesnakes in colour. I now lost sight of my enemy again. Still keeping close along shore, on turning a point or projection of the river bank,...great number of hillocks or small pyramids, resembling hay-corks ranged like an encampment along the banks. They stood fifteen or twenty yards distant from... | |
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