The Natural History of Selborne ... With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesTicknor & Fields, 1866 - 430 Seiten |
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... stone , little in appearance removed from chalk , but seems so far from being calcareous , that it endures extreme heat . Yet that the free- * The geology of the district is very peculiar . The Selborne range of hills , which unite the ...
... stone , little in appearance removed from chalk , but seems so far from being calcareous , that it endures extreme heat . Yet that the free- * The geology of the district is very peculiar . The Selborne range of hills , which unite the ...
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Gilbert White. stone still preserves somewhat that is analogous to chalk is plain from the beeches which descend as low as those rocks extend , and no farther , and thrive as well on them , where the ground is steep , as on the chalks ...
Gilbert White. stone still preserves somewhat that is analogous to chalk is plain from the beeches which descend as low as those rocks extend , and no farther , and thrive as well on them , where the ground is steep , as on the chalks ...
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... stone , which , when turned up to the frost and rain moulders to pieces , and becomes manure to itself . Still on to the north - east , and a step lower , is a kind of white land , neither chalk nor clay , neither fit for pasture nor ...
... stone , which , when turned up to the frost and rain moulders to pieces , and becomes manure to itself . Still on to the north - east , and a step lower , is a kind of white land , neither chalk nor clay , neither fit for pasture nor ...
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... stone steps , and seats above them , was the delight of old and young , and a place of much resort in summer evenings ; where the former sat in grave debate , while the latter frolicked and danced before them . Long might it have stood ...
... stone steps , and seats above them , was the delight of old and young , and a place of much resort in summer evenings ; where the former sat in grave debate , while the latter frolicked and danced before them . Long might it have stood ...
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... 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 was ploughed up in the chalky fields , near the side of the Down , and given to ...
... 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 was ploughed up in the chalky fields , near the side of the Down , and given to ...
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