The Natural History of Selborne ... With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesTicknor & Fields, 1866 - 430 Seiten |
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... sometimes burnt as lime . The upper greensand crops out in the malm rock , on which the village is built ; gault shows itself in the Emshott road , and the lower greensand extends to Wolmer forest on the east , where it is succeeded by ...
... sometimes burnt as lime . The upper greensand crops out in the malm rock , on which the village is built ; gault shows itself in the Emshott road , and the lower greensand extends to Wolmer forest on the east , where it is succeeded by ...
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... sometimes observed . In the very thickest strata of our freestone , and at considerable depths , well - diggers often find large scallops or pectines , having both shells deeply striated , and ridged and furrowed alternately . They are ...
... sometimes observed . In the very thickest strata of our freestone , and at considerable depths , well - diggers often find large scallops or pectines , having both shells deeply striated , and ridged and furrowed alternately . They are ...
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... sometimes used in buildings . In many parts of that waste it lies scattered on the surface of the 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 ...
... sometimes used in buildings . In many parts of that waste it lies scattered on the surface of the 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 ...
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... sometimes thirty brace in a day . But there was a nobler species of game in this forest , now extinct , which I have heard old people say abounded much before shooting flying became so common , and that was the heath - cock , or black ...
... sometimes thirty brace in a day . But there was a nobler species of game in this forest , now extinct , which I have heard old people say abounded much before shooting flying became so common , and that was the heath - cock , or black ...
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... sometimes political refugees , at others professional robbers , and the off - scouring of society , who took to the forest , disguised themselves by blacking their faces , and committed all sorts of depredations : stealing the deer ...
... sometimes political refugees , at others professional robbers , and the off - scouring of society , who took to the forest , disguised themselves by blacking their faces , and committed all sorts of depredations : stealing the deer ...
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