The Natural History of Selborne ... With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesTicknor & Fields, 1866 - 430 Seiten |
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... common ; many trees are recorded greatly exceeding that described in size . One , at the end of Church Lane , Chelsea , felled in 1745 , was thirteen feet in circum- ference at the base , and a hundred and ten feet high ; another at ...
... common ; many trees are recorded greatly exceeding that described in size . One , at the end of Church Lane , Chelsea , felled in 1745 , was thirteen feet in circum- ference at the base , and a hundred and ten feet high ; another at ...
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... common about this village . As we were cutting an inclining path up the Hanger , the labourers found them frequently on that steep , just under the soil , in the chalk , and of a considerable size . * In the lane above Well- head , in ...
... common about this village . As we were cutting an inclining path up the Hanger , the labourers found them frequently on that steep , just under the soil , in the chalk , and of a considerable size . * In the lane above Well- head , in ...
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... common , and that was the heath - cock , or black game . When I was a little boy I recollect one coming now and then to my father's table . The last pack remembered was killed about thirty - five years ago ; and within these ten years ...
... common , and that was the heath - cock , or black game . When I was a little boy I recollect one coming now and then to my father's table . The last pack remembered was killed about thirty - five years ago ; and within these ten years ...
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... seems to be claims of common right by which 4000 acres must always remain unenclosed . This prevents the sale or further enclosure of the forest . - ED . D about two miles in extent from north to south , OF SELBORNE . 33.
... seems to be claims of common right by which 4000 acres must always remain unenclosed . This prevents the sale or further enclosure of the forest . - ED . D about two miles in extent from north to south , OF SELBORNE . 33.
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... common . One thing is remarkable ; that , though the Holt has been of old well stocked with fallow - deer , unre- strained by any pales or fences more than a common hedge , yet they were never seen within the limits of Wolmer ; nor were ...
... common . One thing is remarkable ; that , though the Holt has been of old well stocked with fallow - deer , unre- strained by any pales or fences more than a common hedge , yet they were never seen within the limits of Wolmer ; nor were ...
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