 | 1760 - 564 pagine
...defiroy ten times more with their largefeet, than with their mouths, &c. They root up large trees, and break fmall ones, to feed on their leaves ; by...droves, from fifty to a hundred, or more. The food they affedt moft, is that of a tree, not unlike our cherries, but which is full of pith, like our alder,... | |
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...they defiroy ten times more with their large feet than with their mouths. They root up large trees, and break fmall ones, to feed on their leaves ; by...they deftroy whole forefts, as they commonly go in fuch numerous droves front 50 to a 100, or more. The food they affect moft is a tree not unlike our... | |
 | 1760 - 552 pagine
...deflroy ten times more with their largefeet, than with their mouths, <bc. They root up large trees, and break fmall ones, to feed on their leaves ; by which, in time, they deftroy whole forefls, as. they commonly go in large droves, from fifty to a hundred, or more. The food they affect... | |
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...they deftroy -ten times more with their large foet than with their mouths. The/ root up large trees, and break fmall ones, to feed on their leaves ; by which in tin» they deftroy whole foreSts, u thejr commonly go in Such numerous droves from 50 to a loo, or... | |
 | 1781 - 474 pagine
...mouths. They root up large trees, and break fmall ones, to feed on their leaves ; by which practice in time they deftroy whole forefts, as they commonly go in large droves, from fifty to a hundred. The food they relifii moft, is that of a tree, not unlike our cherries, full of pith, like our alder,... | |
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The food they affeft moft, is that of a tree, not unlike our cherries^ but which is full of pith, like our alder, but of a delicious tafte to them. Their fize is fo monftrous, that a man, mounted on a tall mule, cannot reach their back by fome fpans... 