 | Books and bookselling - 460 pages
...depofite a layer of eggs, and upon this ftratum of mortar fr-ven or eight inches in tlucknefs, and then another layer of eggs, and in this manner one Stratum upon another, nearly to tlie top. 1 believe th?y commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in- a neit : thefe are hatched,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...deposit a layer of eggs, and upon this a stratum of mortar seven or eight inches in thickness, and then another layer of eggs ; and in this manner one stratum upon another nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a nest: these are hatched, I suppose, by... | |
 | Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1803 - 402 pages
...stratum of their mortar, seven or eight inches thick, then another layer of eggs; and in this manner on« stratum upon another, nearly to the top of the nest....in which they are deposited. The female carefully watches her own nest of eggs till they are all hatched. She then takes her brood under her care, and... | |
 | Thomas Ashe - Alleghany River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1809 - 334 pages
...mortar, seven 'or eight inches thick, then another layer of eggs ; and in this manner one stratum npon another, nearly to the top of the nest. They; lay from one hundred to two hundred eggs in a nest. Tjiese arp {latched by the heat of the sun, assisted by the fermpnta; tion of the vegetable mortar... | |
 | William Bingley - Canada - 1821 - 374 pages
...deposited a layer of eggs, and upon that a stratum of mortar, seven or eight inches in thickness, and then another layer of eggs; and, in this manner, one stratum upon another, nearly to the top. Mr. Bartram supposes that the eggs are hatched by the heat of the sun; and that the female alligator... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 494 pages
...deposit a layer of eggs, and upon this a stratum of mortar, seven or eight inches in thickness, and then another layer of eggs, and, in this manner, one stratum upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a nest : these are hatched, I suppose,... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1826 - 638 pages
...deposit a layer of eggs, and upon this a stratnm of mortar seven or eight inches in thickness, and then another layer of eggs, and in this manner one stratum upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a nest : these are hatched, I suppose,... | |
 | 1808 - 1158 pages
...mortar, seven or eight inches thick, then another layer of eggs; and "in this manner one stratum upou another, nearly to the top of the nest. They lay from one hundred to t\vo hundred eggs in a nest. These are hatched by the hcit of the sun, assisted by the fermentation... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 pages
...deposit a layer of eggs, and upon this a stratum of mortar seven or eight inches in thickness, and then another layer of eggs, and in this manner one stratum upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a nest: these are hatched, I suppose, by... | |
 | Willis Stanley Blatchley - Natural history - 1902 - 286 pages
...deposit a layer of eggs, and upon this a stratum of mortar, seven or eight inches in thickness, and then another layer of eggs, and in this manner one stratum upon another, nearly to the top. I believe they commonly lay from one to two hundred eggs in a nest; these are hatched, I suppose, by... | |
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... feet high and four or five feet in diameter at their bases; they are constructed with mud, grass and herbage: at first they lay a floor of this kind of tempered mortar on the ground, upon which they deposit a layer of eggs, and upon this a stratum... 
