Miscellanies, Volumen2Macmillan, 1863 |
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... clay , or mud and water , in which many a horse has been abandoned as inextricable ? While roads are left in this state , with a boundless supply of timber close at hand ( supposing that stone be too far off ) to make a sound ' metal ...
... clay , or mud and water , in which many a horse has been abandoned as inextricable ? While roads are left in this state , with a boundless supply of timber close at hand ( supposing that stone be too far off ) to make a sound ' metal ...
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... clay , and the surface covered with little shallow pools of water , with pretty water - plants and quantities of wading birds , I saw the most magnificent bird I ever beheld ; he must be the king that was sent down from Heaven to meet ...
... clay , and the surface covered with little shallow pools of water , with pretty water - plants and quantities of wading birds , I saw the most magnificent bird I ever beheld ; he must be the king that was sent down from Heaven to meet ...
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... Clays to the sand strata beneath , which furnish a soft water , considered by one or two gentlemen , on account of the quantity of carbonate of soda which it contains , to possess the quality of economizing soap ( not , we fear , of ...
... Clays to the sand strata beneath , which furnish a soft water , considered by one or two gentlemen , on account of the quantity of carbonate of soda which it contains , to possess the quality of economizing soap ( not , we fear , of ...
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... clays of the middle Bagshot beds , which form the cultivated slopes of the valleys . Much of the rain which falls on the table lands , unable to escape at this level , descends to a greater depth , to reappear in the lower meadows in ...
... clays of the middle Bagshot beds , which form the cultivated slopes of the valleys . Much of the rain which falls on the table lands , unable to escape at this level , descends to a greater depth , to reappear in the lower meadows in ...
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... Clay Farm , ' by Talpa , which teem with humour and wisdom . ' In sporting literature ( a tenth muse , exclusively in- digenous to England ) , the same observation holds good tenfold . Some of our most perfect topographical sketches ...
... Clay Farm , ' by Talpa , which teem with humour and wisdom . ' In sporting literature ( a tenth muse , exclusively in- digenous to England ) , the same observation holds good tenfold . Some of our most perfect topographical sketches ...
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