The Natural History of SelborneConstable and Company, 1829 - 343 стор. |
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... Weather Woodcocks Water Eft Wheatear Winter Birds of Passage Wolmer Pond Woodpigeons Worms Wren , Golden Crowned Wren , Willow Yellow Hammer 68 325 46 144 29 168 , 177 136 253 60 55 150 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . PART I. IN A ...
... Weather Woodcocks Water Eft Wheatear Winter Birds of Passage Wolmer Pond Woodpigeons Worms Wren , Golden Crowned Wren , Willow Yellow Hammer 68 325 46 144 29 168 , 177 136 253 60 55 150 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . PART I. IN A ...
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... weather , and endures thirty or forty years . When chiselled smooth , it makes elegant fronts for houses , equal in colour and grain to the Bath stone ; and superior in one respect , that , when seasoned , it does not scale . Decent ...
... weather , and endures thirty or forty years . When chiselled smooth , it makes elegant fronts for houses , equal in colour and grain to the Bath stone ; and superior in one respect , that , when seasoned , it does not scale . Decent ...
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... weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest , from this observation ; viz . Nov. 29 , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth ...
... weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest , from this observation ; viz . Nov. 29 , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth ...
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... weather , they come trooping all at once into these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish . It is very amusing to ...
... weather , they come trooping all at once into these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish . It is very amusing to ...
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... weather , frequent our lakes in the forest . Having some acquaintance with a tame brown owl , I find that it casts up the fur of mice , and the feathers of birds in pellets , after the manner of hawks : when full , like a dog , it hides ...
... weather , frequent our lakes in the forest . Having some acquaintance with a tame brown owl , I find that it casts up the fur of mice , and the feathers of birds in pellets , after the manner of hawks : when full , like a dog , it hides ...
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