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To these enumerated provisions from the vegetable kingdom, may be added the cuy or little rabbit, Lepus minimus, and the Chilihueque, or Araucanian camel; the flesh of which last affords an excellent food, and its wool furnishes clothing for the natives. If tradition may be credited, they had also the hog and the domestic fowl before the Spanish invasion.
There is your animal poison, as the lepus marinus, as mentioned by Dioscorides and Galen there are mineral and semi-mineral poisons, as those compounded of sublimate regulus of antimony, vitriol, and the arsenical salts there are your poisons from herbs and vegetables, as the aqua cymbalariae, opium, aconitum, cantharides, and the like there are also "
He tells Bernard Barton on March 20, 1826, "My tirade against visitors was not meant particularly at you or A.K. I scarce know what I meant, for I do not just now feel the grievance. I wanted to make an article." Compare the first of the "Lepus" papers in Vol. It is the refreshing sleep of the day. After this sentence, in the magazine, came this passage:
Moreover, much of what we have is rendered useless, except for antiquarian purposes, by the extremely crude notions of etymology displayed. Caelum is from cavus, or from chaos; terra from teri, quia teritur; Sol from solus; lepus from levipes, &c.
You promptly called it a marsh rabbit!" "Lepus palustris" she nodded, delighted. "By all means," he retorted, pretending offensive scepticism, "but why a marsh rabbit?" "Because, monsieur, its tail was brown, not white. Didn't you notice that?" "Oh, it's all very well for you to talk that way, but I've another grievance.
Ha, ha, a pair of breeches is not so easily got; I have experience of it myself. Consider, Domine, I have been these eighteen days in matagrabolizing this brave speech. Reddite quae sunt Caesaris, Caesari, et quae sunt Dei, Deo. Ibi jacet lepus. By my faith, Domine, if you will sup with me in cameris, by cox body, charitatis, nos faciemus bonum cherubin.
In four and a half centuries these rabbits had become so different from any European rabbits that Haeckel described them as a species apart, and named it Lepus Huxlei. This rabbit is much smaller than the European form, being described as more like a large rat than a rabbit.
There was the knight of fair-hair'd Danae born, Perseus. Orion is not specially mentioned, but Orion, Lepus, and the Dogs seem referred to: Men of chase Were taking the fleet hares; two keen-toothed dogs Bounded beside. Homer would find no difficulty in pluralising the mighty Hunter and the hare into huntsmen and hares when utilising a description originally referring to the constellation.
The term "binary" is used to describe double stars which are in motion about their common center of gravity. Let us now leave the inviting star-fields of Orion and take a glance at the little constellation of Lepus, crouching at the feet of the mythical giant. This star varies from the sixth or seventh magnitude to magnitude eight and a half in a period of four hundred and twenty-four days.
Porto Santo is a small island, not far from Madeira, on which a Portuguese navigator, named Zarco, let loose, somewhere about the year 1420, a doe and a recently born litter of rabbits, which we may feel quite sure belonged to one of those domestic breeds which have all been derived from the wild rabbit of Europe known to zoologists as Lepus Cuniculus.
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