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" It is an attested fact, that if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a signal given to him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the ring before it touches the water... "
Animal biography, or, Popular zoology - Page 304
by William Bingley - 1829
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The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 8

James Anderson - 1792 - 394 pages
...him. It is an attested fact, that if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a signal given to him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the...master with apparent exultation ; and it is confidently afserted, that if a house, or any other place, be mown to him once or twice, he will carry a note thither...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 20

1791 - 542 pages
...it is an attefted fait, that if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a lir.ii, 1 1 given to him, he will fly down •with amazing celerity, catch the...before it touches the water, and bring it up to his jnafter with apparent exultation ; and it is confidently afierted, that if a houfe or any ether place...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History ..., Volume 12

1792 - 724 pages
...it is an attefted fa¿>, that, if a rirtg bi dropped into a deep well, and a fig* nal given to him, he will fly down with amazing Celerity, catch the ring before it touches the water,' ana bring it up to his mafter with appa* rent exultation ; and it is confidently aflerted, that, if...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1793 - 636 pages
...an attefted * Ppa fz£t that, if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a fignal be given to him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the...before it touches the water, and bring it up to his mafter with apparent exultation.' One inftance of his docility is mentioned by the author with confidence:...
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 1

1793 - 524 pages
...ftated as a well-attefted fact, that if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a fignal given to him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the...before it touches the water, and bring it up to his matter with apparent apparent exultation. Other inftances of its fagacity are alfo rehited. , Art....
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 11

1793 - 612 pages
...' it is an attefted fan that, if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a fignal be given to him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the...before it touches the water, and bring it up to his mafter with apparent exultation.' One inftance of his docility is mentioned by the author with confidence:...
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Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 93

1793 - 526 pages
...attetted fail, that if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a fig«al be given to him, he will flv dpwa with amazing celerity, catch the ring before it touches the water, and bring it up to his mailer with apparentes ultation. "The your.g Hindoo wqmin at Benares, and in other places, wear thin...
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The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Volume 8

James Anderson - 1792 - 386 pages
...him. It is an attested fact, that if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a signal given to him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the...master with apparent exultation ; and it is confidently afserted, that if a house, or any other place, be fhow.n to him once or twice, he will carry a note...
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A Narrative of the Operations of Captain Little's Detachment, and of the ...

Edward Moor - 1794 - 562 pages
...him. It is an attefted fact, that if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a 'fignal given to him, he will fly down with amazing celerity, catch the...before it touches the water, and bring it up to his mafter with apparent exultation : afnd it is confidently aflerted, that if a houfe, or any other place,...
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The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History ..., Volume 56

1794 - 892 pages
...attellcd г'лД, that if a ring be dropped into a deep well, and a lignai given to him, he will iiy down with amazing celerity, catch the ring before it touches the water, and bring it up to his mailer with apparent exultation ; and it is confidently aiLrtcd, that if a houfe or any other place...
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