. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 274 NOTICES REGARDING THE PRINCIPAL m. D- '! pra'stemum being prolonged into a sliarpish point or spine,
. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 274 NOTICES REGARDING THE PRINCIPAL m. D- '! pra'stemum being prolonged into a sliarpish point or spine, laterally compressed. Tlie use of this organ be- comes obvious after studying the movements of the liv- ing insects. The legs are so short, that when these creatures fall upon their backs, which they frequently do while dropping from a plant upon the ground, they can only assume their natural position by bringing the projecting point of the prsBstemum into sudden contict with a groove placed in the front of the mesostemum. In their early state these insects do great injury to field and garden produce, and the destructive grub, so well known under the name of wire-worm, is the larva of an elater. Some of the American species are remarkable for their phosphoric splendour, and are often seen twinkling like still's among the leafy herbage when the shades of night have fallen upon the dewy forests. If several ancient nations were worshippers of the sun, and regarded holy light as a divine effulgence, we need scarcely wonder that in remote times, when natural pheno- mena were but inaccurately observed, every manifestation of a supposed celestial principle should excite the wonder as well as the admiration of mankind. We consequently hnd many exaggerated accounts of these mysterious nocturnal lights, although the natural phenomena whiclii tliey exhibit are in themselves of sucli singular beauty as to need no aid from fictitious ornament to render them deserving of our most attentive
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