The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... ground . It was LETTER III . THE fossil - shells of this district , and sorts of stone , such as have fallen within my observation , must not be passed over in silence . And first I must mention , as a great curiosity , a specimen that ...
... ground . It was LETTER III . THE fossil - shells of this district , and sorts of stone , such as have fallen within my observation , must not be passed over in silence . And first I must mention , as a great curiosity , a specimen that ...
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... ground abroad this firestone will not succeed for pavements , because , probably some degree of saltness prevailing within it , the rain tears the slabs to pieces . † Though this stone is too hard to be acted on by vinegar , yet both ...
... ground abroad this firestone will not succeed for pavements , because , probably some degree of saltness prevailing within it , the rain tears the slabs to pieces . † Though this stone is too hard to be acted on by vinegar , yet both ...
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... ground ; but is dug on Weaver's Down , a vast hill on the eastern verge of that forest , where the pits are shallow and the stratum thin . This stone is imperishable . From a notion of rendering their work the more elegant , and giving ...
... ground ; but is dug on Weaver's Down , a vast hill on the eastern verge of that forest , where the pits are shallow and the stratum thin . This stone is imperishable . From a notion of rendering their work the more elegant , and giving ...
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... ground , has an influence in promoting a thaw , as well as the change of the weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest from this observation - viz . , Nov. 29th , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was ...
... ground , has an influence in promoting a thaw , as well as the change of the weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest from this observation - viz . , Nov. 29th , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was ...
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... ground ; so that for hundreds of acres nothing is to be seen but smother and desolation , the whole circuit round looking like the cinders of a volcano ; and , the soil being quite exhausted , no traces of vegetation are to be found for ...
... ground ; so that for hundreds of acres nothing is to be seen but smother and desolation , the whole circuit round looking like the cinders of a volcano ; and , the soil being quite exhausted , no traces of vegetation are to be found for ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn beeches birds of prey blackcap breed brood called chaffinches colour cuckoo curious district Edited eggs feed feet female fern-owl field fieldfares flies flocks frequently frost garden grass ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines Hirundo house-martins inches insects Joseph Skipsey July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner MARKWICK martins migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls perhaps plants ponds prey procure quadrupeds remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks season seems SELBORNE Sept sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew strange suppose Sussex swallow swarm swifts tail thrushes titmouse trees vast village weather wild wings winter wonder Woodlark woods wren young