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Scientific American, Vol. 11, No. 5 (1864) (1864)

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ese respects, for there is not most formidable creatures that man or beast can one of the mechanical powers involved in its con- have the misfortune to encounter. Their sharp, struction. It is simply a steel spring ingeniously triangular teeth, arranged in the same manner as bent and arranged, and… … floating on the water by thous- the forward motion of the cloth ands, while the beach is strewn this loop is fiattened and prepared with their bones, especially their bristling jaws, which render walking barefoot on the borders of lagoons “Slow speed and fine feed”—say these gen- extremely…

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