The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarG. Bell, 1890 - 416 Seiten |
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... feet of the surface , 16 yards in circumference , and close by the ground , 26 yards . Its height is about 80 feet , and its principal limb extends 16 yards from the boll . The Greendale oak , at a foot from the ground , is in ...
... feet of the surface , 16 yards in circumference , and close by the ground , 26 yards . Its height is about 80 feet , and its principal limb extends 16 yards from the boll . The Greendale oak , at a foot from the ground , is in ...
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... tching into k in Essex , y's oak , in n decaying oak , felled at the bark cumference irling , must England o ach twent constantl ng this wa ameter . att . Whe Feet of so oduced 60 WHIMPER On the Blackmoor estate there is a small wood.
... tching into k in Essex , y's oak , in n decaying oak , felled at the bark cumference irling , must England o ach twent constantl ng this wa ameter . att . Whe Feet of so oduced 60 WHIMPER On the Blackmoor estate there is a small wood.
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... feet long without bough , and would measure twelve inches diameter at the ittle end . * Twenty such trees did a purveyor find in this little wood , with this advantage , that many of them answered the description at sixty feet . These ...
... feet long without bough , and would measure twelve inches diameter at the ittle end . * Twenty such trees did a purveyor find in this little wood , with this advantage , that many of them answered the description at sixty feet . These ...
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... feet beneath the level of the fields ; and , after floods , and in frosts , exhibit very grotesque and wild appearances , from the tangled roots that are twisted among the strata , and from the torrents rushing down their broken sides ...
... feet beneath the level of the fields ; and , after floods , and in frosts , exhibit very grotesque and wild appearances , from the tangled roots that are twisted among the strata , and from the torrents rushing down their broken sides ...
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... feet depth of earth over it . It continued also to lie on thatch , tiles , ana the tops of walls . " - See Hales's Hamastatics , p . 360. Quere , Might not such observations be reduced to domestic use , by promoting the discovery of old ...
... feet depth of earth over it . It continued also to lie on thatch , tiles , ana the tops of walls . " - See Hales's Hamastatics , p . 360. Quere , Might not such observations be reduced to domestic use , by promoting the discovery of old ...
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