The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, Том 1J. Van Voorst, 1877 |
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... female line , went into the family of the Ashfords , who sold it . " Thomas Holt , father of Anne Holt , afterwards wife of John White ( my father ) , was born at Petersfield , in the county of Southampton . He was first Demy of Magd ...
... female line , went into the family of the Ashfords , who sold it . " Thomas Holt , father of Anne Holt , afterwards wife of John White ( my father ) , was born at Petersfield , in the county of Southampton . He was first Demy of Magd ...
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... Females 6,0 sive From 1730 to 1739 , both Males years inclusive From 1740 to 1749 , inclu- Males sive From 1750 to 1759 , inclu- | Males From 1760 to 1769 , inclu- | Males 8,2 15,3 Females 7,1 9,21 15,8 Females 6,6 7,61 15,7 Females 8,1 ...
... Females 6,0 sive From 1730 to 1739 , both Males years inclusive From 1740 to 1749 , inclu- Males sive From 1750 to 1759 , inclu- | Males From 1760 to 1769 , inclu- | Males 8,2 15,3 Females 7,1 9,21 15,8 Females 6,6 7,61 15,7 Females 8,1 ...
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... Females . Total . Males . Females . Total . MAR . 1761. 8 10 18 2 4 6 3 1762. 7 8 15 10 14 24 6 1763 . 8 10 18 3 4 7 5 1764. 11 9 20 10 8 18 6 1765. 12 6 18 9 7 16 6 1766 . 9 13 22 10 6 16 4 1767. 14 5 19 6 1768. 7 6 13 2 1769 . 9 14 23 ...
... Females . Total . Males . Females . Total . MAR . 1761. 8 10 18 2 4 6 3 1762. 7 8 15 10 14 24 6 1763 . 8 10 18 3 4 7 5 1764. 11 9 20 10 8 18 6 1765. 12 6 18 9 7 16 6 1766 . 9 13 22 10 6 16 4 1767. 14 5 19 6 1768. 7 6 13 2 1769 . 9 14 23 ...
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... female with young , both of which I have preserved in brandy . From the colour , shape , size , and manner of nesting , I make no doubt but that the species is nondescript . They are much smaller and more slender than the mus domesticus ...
... female with young , both of which I have preserved in brandy . From the colour , shape , size , and manner of nesting , I make no doubt but that the species is nondescript . They are much smaller and more slender than the mus domesticus ...
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... females , though young males that have not yet put on the external distinction of their sex may be among them . These strangers appear chiefly on the east coast of England , from Yorkshire southward ; but how far they penetrate to the ...
... females , though young males that have not yet put on the external distinction of their sex may be among them . These strangers appear chiefly on the east coast of England , from Yorkshire southward ; but how far they penetrate to the ...
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Сторінка 330 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Сторінка 181 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Сторінка 132 - Faunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonyms : the reason is plain ; because all that may be done at home in a man's study, but the investigation of the life and conversation of animals, is a concern of much more trouble and difficulty, and is not be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country.
Сторінка 181 - In a farm-yard, near the middle of this village, stands, at this day, a row of pollard-ashes, which, by the seams and long cicatrices down their sides, manifestly show that, in former times, they have been cleft asunder. These trees, when young and flexible, were severed and held open by wedges, while ruptured children, stript naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity.
Сторінка 262 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Сторінка 151 - ... funnel, as I have often observed with some degree of wonder. Five or six, or more feet down the chimney, does this little bird begin to form her nest about the middle of May, which consists, like that of the housemartin, of a crust or shell composed of dirt or mud, mixed with short pieces of straw, to render it tough and permanent ; with this difference, that whereas the.
Сторінка 56 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Сторінка 4 - ... the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit.
Сторінка 182 - Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to exist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, The late vicar stubb'd and burnt it...
Сторінка 128 - Part loosely wing the region; part more wise In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...