The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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... person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years , from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon was 16 inches for the year ; if from 1740 to ...
... person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years , from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon was 16 inches for the year ; if from 1740 to ...
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... a hundred years . This person assures me , that his father has often told him , that Queen Anne , as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road , did not think the forest of Wolmer 293 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 17.
... a hundred years . This person assures me , that his father has often told him , that Queen Anne , as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road , did not think the forest of Wolmer 293 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 17.
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... person was allowed to be possessed of manhood or gallantry . The Waltham blacks at length committed such enormities , that govern- ment was forced to interfere with that severe and sanguin- ary act called the " Black Act , " which now ...
... person was allowed to be possessed of manhood or gallantry . The Waltham blacks at length committed such enormities , that govern- ment was forced to interfere with that severe and sanguin- ary act called the " Black Act , " which now ...
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... , 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 .
... , 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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... person has informed me , that while he was a schoolboy at Brighthelmstone , in Sussex , a great fragment of the chalk cliff fell down one stormy winter on the beach , and that many people found swallows among the rubbish ; but on my ...
... person has informed me , that while he was a schoolboy at Brighthelmstone , in Sussex , a great fragment of the chalk cliff fell down one stormy winter on the beach , and that many people found swallows among the rubbish ; but on my ...
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