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- Author: J Tennent Emerson
- Publisher: MJP Publisher
- Year: 2021
- Pages: 494
- ISBN-10: 9387826473
- ISBN-13: 9789387826472
- Format: 19.1 x 23.5 x 2.7 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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A considerable portion of the contents of the present volume formed the zoological section of a much more comprehensive work recently published, on the history and present condition of Ceylon.1 But its inclusion there was a matter of difficulty; for to have altogether omitted the chapters on Natural History would have impaired the completeness of the plan on which I had attempted to describe the island; whilst to insert them as they here appear, without curtailment, would have encroached unduly on the space required for other essential topics. In this dilemma, I was obliged to adopt the alternative of so condensing the matter as to bring the whole within the prescribed proportions. But this operation necessarily diminished the general interest of the subjects treat¬ed, as well by the omission of incidents which would otherwise have been retained, as by the exclusion of anecdotes calculated to illustrate the habits and instincts of the animals described.
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- Author: J Tennent Emerson
- Publisher: MJP Publisher
- Year: 2021
- Pages: 494
- ISBN-10: 9387826473
- ISBN-13: 9789387826472
- Format: 19.1 x 23.5 x 2.7 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
A considerable portion of the contents of the present volume formed the zoological section of a much more comprehensive work recently published, on the history and present condition of Ceylon.1 But its inclusion there was a matter of difficulty; for to have altogether omitted the chapters on Natural History would have impaired the completeness of the plan on which I had attempted to describe the island; whilst to insert them as they here appear, without curtailment, would have encroached unduly on the space required for other essential topics. In this dilemma, I was obliged to adopt the alternative of so condensing the matter as to bring the whole within the prescribed proportions. But this operation necessarily diminished the general interest of the subjects treat¬ed, as well by the omission of incidents which would otherwise have been retained, as by the exclusion of anecdotes calculated to illustrate the habits and instincts of the animals described.
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