Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ordinarily familiar with, is inflicted byan instrument identical with that which enabled the Skeeters to pierce through the military boots ofthe Father of the States, in the Jersey marshes,and, if history is truthful in its record of that event,caused that usually exemplary man to indulge in badlanguage, or, as we read it, swearlike a trooper;or that attacked the army of Julian the Apostate,and drove him back; or that compelled Sapor, kingof Persia, to raise the siege of Nisibis, st
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ordinarily familiar with, is inflicted byan instrument identical with that which enabled the Skeeters to pierce through the military boots ofthe Father of the States, in the Jersey marshes,and, if history is truthful in its record of that event,caused that usually exemplary man to indulge in badlanguage, or, as we read it, swearlike a trooper;or that attacked the army of Julian the Apostate,and drove him back; or that compelled Sapor, kingof Persia, to raise the siege of Nisibis, stinging hiselephants and camels into a state of fury; or thatrender the banks of the river Po at some placesuninhabitable; or, as Humboldt tells us, oblige the AmiL 1,1S67.] HARDWICKES S CIENCE- GO S S IP. 70 people residing at the month of the river Urare tosleep in pits dug for the purpose, buried up all buttheir heads, which they cover with a rug; and last,though not least, that drove the Boundary Commis-sion, one aud all, to quit the prairies and take uptheir quarters in the mountains—stopping the work. Fig. 5. East Indian Mosquito* (male) x 8 diameters of nearly a hundred men. No, I cannot but thinkthe lancet-blades in some Mosquitoes are longer,sharper, and better fitted to inflict pain, than aresimilar weapons in other species. The CalifornianMosquitoes are not half so bad as the thorough-bredBritish Columbians.
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