Miscellanies, Volumen2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... chalk down , by applying chemical salts which were the exact equivalents of the crop he required , and that at a less experse than was required by the farmers round to grow a smaller crop on the best of soil ? If that be not practical ...
... chalk down , by applying chemical salts which were the exact equivalents of the crop he required , and that at a less experse than was required by the farmers round to grow a smaller crop on the best of soil ? If that be not practical ...
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... chalk counties of England -i.e. , from the strata which now supply hard water to London , and from which almost all the proposed plans wish still to supply it . One more count remains of our general indictment against the present ...
... chalk counties of England -i.e. , from the strata which now supply hard water to London , and from which almost all the proposed plans wish still to supply it . One more count remains of our general indictment against the present ...
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... chalk . Even now , the great brewers who are supplied by chalk wells are compelled to pump on separate days , to avoid exhausting the supply ; and the springs at Watford , twenty miles from London , are higher every Monday than during ...
... chalk . Even now , the great brewers who are supplied by chalk wells are compelled to pump on separate days , to avoid exhausting the supply ; and the springs at Watford , twenty miles from London , are higher every Monday than during ...
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... chalk , greensand , and wealden hills , from which , by some mysterious agency , every atom of carbonate of lime has disappeared , leaving nothing behind but their skeleton of sharp flint and sand . The imagination reels at the thought ...
... chalk , greensand , and wealden hills , from which , by some mysterious agency , every atom of carbonate of lime has disappeared , leaving nothing behind but their skeleton of sharp flint and sand . The imagination reels at the thought ...
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... chalk cutting ; and white mounds gleam cold a moment against the sky , and vanish ; and rocks , and grass , and bushes , fleet by in dim blended lines ; and the long hedges revolve like the spokes of a gigantic wheel ; and far below ...
... chalk cutting ; and white mounds gleam cold a moment against the sky , and vanish ; and rocks , and grass , and bushes , fleet by in dim blended lines ; and the long hedges revolve like the spokes of a gigantic wheel ; and far below ...
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