A Comparative Enquiry as to the Preventive and Curative Influence of the Climate of Pau Etc. on Health and Disease - Softcover

Taylor, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1150848650 ISBN 13: 9781150848650

Publisher: General Books LLC, 2012

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856. Excerpt: ... THE EAUX-CHAUDES. 339 say connected with Pau, the merits and demerits of its climate, the means of agreeability it offers as a place of residence, and its comparison with other continental climates; and having described the leading Pyrenean watering-places, and the medical properties of their waters; we shall conclude this work with some cursory notices of the natural history of the Pyrenees, and of their mountain sports. CHAPTER XXX. SOME CUBSORY NOTICES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PYRE-NEES.--BIRDS AND BEASTS OF CHASE. ENUMERATION OF SOME INSECTS FOUND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE WATERING-PLACES.--THE CHASSE OF THE COQ DE BRUYERE, IZZARD, BEAR, WOLF, AND IBEX. TT would be a superfluous undertaking to give a minute description or even a catalogue of the animals which permanently reside in, or occasionally and periodically visit, the Pyrenees; since, with the exception of those met with beyond the regions habitable by man, and which, like the plants, become more rare as we approach the lofty summits of the chain, they are those common to most mountainous vicinities, and corresponding points of medium elevation. With regard to the beasts and birds, we shall confine our remarks to such as are peculiar to the most untrodden beats of the Pyrenees, where the natural antipathy betwixt the lower creatures and their ruler, man, has taught them to choose the most difficult solitudes for indulging an uninterrupted freedom--a necessity of their natures, and to such, therefore, chiefly as become the subjects of the chase. After leaving behind the last habitations of the mountaineers, as the painful ascent is made up some of the stubborn chains, the zoologist finds himself in regions altogether unsuitable to, and unacquainted with, the tamer animals of the plains; h...

Edition details

• Publisher: General Books LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1150848650
• ISBN 13: 9781150848650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94