 | Readers - 1864 - 386 pages
...make life easy and pleasant to him. He moves, not upon the branches of trees, like the squirrel or monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it. To enable him to do this, he must have a very different formation... | |
 | George Hanneman Bennett - Guyana - 1866 - 366 pages
...together, and often, with a low and inward cry, would seem to invite me to take notice of him. The Sloth, in its wild state, spends its whole life in the trees, and never leaves them but through force, or by accident. An all-ruling Providence has ordered man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1870 - 718 pages
...ground with the greatest difficulty. " In its wild state," says Mr. Waterton, " it spends its whole We in the trees, and never leaves them but through force or accident. An all-ruling Providence has ordained man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 216 pages
...situations without feeling much inconvenience; but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees. What is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he... | |
 | Henry Hugh Higgins - Natural history - 1877 - 266 pages
...was a Three-toed Sloth, Bradypus tridactylus. Of this animal Mr. Waterton writes : — " The Sloth spends its whole life in the trees, and never leaves...accident ; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the 100 Tiger Kitten. branches, like the squirrel and monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the... | |
 | John George Wood - Natural history - 1882 - 76 pages
...form. Yet no animal is more fitted for its position than the Sloth. " The Sloth," says Waterton, " in its wild state, spends its whole life in the trees, and never leaves them but through foree or accident, and what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and monkey,... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1882 - 220 pages
...without feeling much inconvenience : but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees ; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pages
...without feeling much inconvenience : but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he... | |
 | Lemurs - 1883 - 456 pages
...sloth, in its wild state, spends its whole life in trees, and never leaves them but through force, or by accident ; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 pages
...without feeling much inconvenience : but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees ; and what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he... | |
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... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed... 
