Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.Bruce, James
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Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.
Bruce, James
Natural history -- Egypt; Natural history -- Ethiopia; Nile River; Plants -- Egypt; Plants -- Ethiopia; Scientific expeditions -- Egypt
The total length of this animal as he sits, from the point of his nose
to his anus, is 17 inches and a quarter. The length of his snout, from
the extremity of the nose to the occiput, is 3 inches and 3/8ths. His
upper jaw is longer than his under; his nose stretches half an inch
beyond his chin. The aperture of the mouth, when he keeps it close in
profile, is a little more than an inch. The circumference of his snout
around both his jaws is 3 inches and 3/8ths; and round his head, just
above his ears, 8 inches and 5/8ths; the circumference of his neck
is 8 inches and a half, and its length one inch and a half. He seems
more willing to turn his body altogether, than his neck alone. The
circumference of his body, measured behind his forelegs, is 9 inches
and three quarters, and that of his body where greatest, eleven inches
and 3/8ths. The length of his foreleg and toe is 3 inches and a half.
The length of his hind thigh is 3 inches and 1/8th, and the length of
his hind leg to the toe taken together, is 2 feet 2 inches. The length
of the forefoot is 1 inch and 3/8ths; the length of the middle toe 6
lines, and its breadth 6 lines also. The distance between the point
of the nose and the first corner of the eye is one inch and 5/8ths;
and the length of his eye, from one angle to the other, 4 lines. The
difference from the fore angle of his eye to the root of his ear is one
inch 3 lines, and the opening of his eye 2 lines and a half. His upper
lip is covered with a pencil of strong hairs for mustachoes, the length
of which are 3 inches and 5/8ths, and those of his eye-brows 2 inches
and 2/8ths.
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