The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of SouthamptonSwan Sonnenschein, 1888 - 568 стор. |
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... rain , moulders to pieces , and becomes manure to itself.2 Still on to the north - east , and a step lower , is a kind of white land , neither chalk nor clay , neither fit for pasture nor for the plough , yet kindly for hops , which ...
... rain , moulders to pieces , and becomes manure to itself.2 Still on to the north - east , and a step lower , is a kind of white land , neither chalk nor clay , neither fit for pasture nor for the plough , yet kindly for hops , which ...
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... rains and frost they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were a very recent production.1 In the chalk - pit , at the north - west end of The Hanger , large Nautili are sometimes observed . In the very thickest strata of our ...
... rains and frost they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were a very recent production.1 In the chalk - pit , at the north - west end of The Hanger , large Nautili are sometimes observed . In the very thickest strata of our ...
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... rain tears the slabs to pieces . Though this stone is too hard to be acted on by vinegar , yet both the white part , and even the blue rag , ferment strongly in mineral acids . Though the white stone will not bear wet , yet in every ...
... rain tears the slabs to pieces . Though this stone is too hard to be acted on by vinegar , yet both the white part , and even the blue rag , ferment strongly in mineral acids . Though the white stone will not bear wet , yet in every ...
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... rain ; is excellent for dry walls ; and is sometimes used in buildings . In many parts of that waste it lies scattered on the surface of the ground ; but is dug on Weaver's Down , a vast hill on the eastern verge of that forest , where ...
... rain ; is excellent for dry walls ; and is sometimes used in buildings . In many parts of that waste it lies scattered on the surface of the ground ; but is dug on Weaver's Down , a vast hill on the eastern verge of that forest , where ...
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... rain of any place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years , from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon ...
... rain of any place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years , from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon ...
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