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" Their body is as large as that of a horse, their shape usually resembles that of a lizard, which is flat, or cuneiform, being compressed on each side, and gradually diminishing from the abdomen to the extremity, which, with the whole body, is covered... "
A Nature Wooing at Ormond by the Sea - Page 166
by Willis Stanley Blatchley - 1902 - 245 pages
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The Caledonian Bee: Or, a Select Collection of Interesting Extracts, from ...

Caledonian bee - 1795 - 302 pages
...the abdomen to the extremity ; which, with the whole body, is covered with horny plates, or fquamma:, impenetrable when on the body of the live animal, even to a rule hall, except about their head and juft behind their fore-legs or. arms, where, it is faid, they...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 16

460 pages
...from the abdomen to the extremity, which, with the whole body is covered wiih horny plates or fquammK, impenetrable when on the body of the live animal, even to a rifle ball, except about their head, and juft behind their fore-legs or arras, wnereit is faid they...
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The Port Folio, Volume 2

1809 - 572 pages
...the abdomen to the extremity, which, with the whole body, is covered with horny plates or squamae, impenetrable, when on the body of the live animal even to a rifle ball, except about their head, and just behind their fore legs or arms, where it is said they...
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Poems in Two Volumes: Containing Gertrude of Wyoming and ..., Volumes 1-2

Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 272 pages
...the abdomen to the extremity, which, with the whole body, is covered with horny plates, of squamee, impenetrable when on the body of the live animal, even to a rifle ball, except about their head; and just behind their fore-legs or arms, where, it is said, they...
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Gertrude of Wyoming: And Other Poems

Thomas Campbell - 1810 - 266 pages
...the abdomen to the extremity, which, with the whole body, is covered with horny plates, of squamae, impenetrable when on the body of the live animal, even to a rifle ball, except about their head, and just behind their fore-legs or arms, where, it is said, they...
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Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Part 1

1793 - 624 pages
...the whole gradually more (lowly until he arrives at body, is covered with horny plates of fquammae, impenetrable when on the body of the live animal, even to a rifle ball, except about their the center of the lake, when he flops. He now fwells himfelf by drawing...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review

1821 - 494 pages
...of the live animal, even to a rifle ball, except about their head, and just behind their fore- legs or arms, where, it is said, they are only vulnerable. The head of a lull grown one is about three feet, and the mouth opens nearly the same length. Their eyes are small...
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The Methodist Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 494 pages
...the abdomen to the extremity, which, with the whole body, is covered with horny plates, or squamae, impenetrable when on the body of the live animal, even to a rifle ball, except about their head, and just behind their fore-legs or arms, where, it is said, they...
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The Brighton gleaner; or, General repository of literary ..., Volume 1

1822 - 494 pages
...with horny plates or squammae, impenetrable when on the body of the live animal, even to a wfle ball, except about their head and just behind their forelegs...it is said they are only vulnerable. The head of a full grown one is about three feet, and the mouth opens nearly the same length ; their eyes are small...
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The Wonders of Nature and Providence, Displayed: Compiled from Authentic ...

Josiah Priest - 1825 - 660 pages
...the abdomen to the extremity, which, with the whole body, is covered with horny plates of squamma;, impenetrable when on the body of the live animal, even to a rifle ball, except about their head and just hehind their fore-legs or arms, where it is said, they...
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