“A” General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World: Many of which are Now First Translated Into English, Том 7Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme (etc.), 1811 |
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Сторінка 369 - Mongalls never accounted it worth cultJvating, but that the world is obliged to the marmots for the quantities fcattered at random in many parts of this country ; for whatever part of the ripe feed happens to be blown among the thick grafs can very feldom reach the ground, but muft there wither and die ; whereas...
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Сторінка 334 - ... upon which all the family fit by day, and fleep in the night. The walls are built of wood and mofs, confifting of large beams, laid one above another, . with a layer of mofs between, every two beams. All the roofs are raifed. A...
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