The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... suppose in a modern villa people would hardly understand what was meant by the allusion to bats creeping down chimneys and gnawing the bacon . Of old time , in all country houses , sides of bacon were hung up to smoke in the fumes of ...
... suppose in a modern villa people would hardly understand what was meant by the allusion to bats creeping down chimneys and gnawing the bacon . Of old time , in all country houses , sides of bacon were hung up to smoke in the fumes of ...
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... suppose that they were parts of a willow or alder , or some such aquatic tree . * Old people have assured me , that on a winter's morning they have discovered these trees , in the bogs , by the hoar frost , which lay longer over the ...
... suppose that they were parts of a willow or alder , or some such aquatic tree . * Old people have assured me , that on a winter's morning they have discovered these trees , in the bogs , by the hoar frost , which lay longer over the ...
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... suppose , of turrets . NOTE . In the beginning of the summer of 1787 , the royal forests of Wolmer and Holt were measured by persons sent down by government . Lodge Hill ; and to the verge of Hartley Mauduit 22 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... suppose , of turrets . NOTE . In the beginning of the summer of 1787 , the royal forests of Wolmer and Holt were measured by persons sent down by government . Lodge Hill ; and to the verge of Hartley Mauduit 22 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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... suppose , for eminence ' sake , is a vast lake for this part of the world , containing , in its whole circumference , 2,646 yards , or very near a mile and a - half . The length of the north - west and opposite side is about 704 yards ...
... suppose , for eminence ' sake , is a vast lake for this part of the world , containing , in its whole circumference , 2,646 yards , or very near a mile and a - half . The length of the north - west and opposite side is about 704 yards ...
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... suppose , with any propriety , be called an English bird ; and yet I see , by Ray's Philoso- phical Letters , that great flocks of them , feeding on haws , appeared in this kingdom in the winter of 1685 . The mention of haws puts me in ...
... suppose , with any propriety , be called an English bird ; and yet I see , by Ray's Philoso- phical Letters , that great flocks of them , feeding on haws , appeared in this kingdom in the winter of 1685 . The mention of haws puts me in ...
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