Author: Edgar Thurston

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781334720864

Excerpt from Notes on the Pearl and Chank Fisheries and Marine Fauna of the Gulf of Manaar The ocypode burrows in the dry soil, making deep excava tions, bringing up literally armfuls of sand, which, with a spring in the air, and employing its other limbs, it jerks far from its burrows, distributing it in a circle to the distance of several feet. So inconvenient are the Operations of these industrious pests that men are kept constantly employed at Colombo in filling up the holes formed by them on the surface of the Galle face. This, the only equestrian promenade of the capital, is so infested by these active little creatures that accidents often occur through horses stumbling in their troublesome excavations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.