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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... ground , is 36 feet in circumference . Damory's oak , in Dorsetshire , at the ground , was in circumference 68 feet , and , when decaying , became hollow , forming a cavity capable of containing 20 men . An oak , felled at Withy Park ...
... ground , is 36 feet in circumference . Damory's oak , in Dorsetshire , at the ground , was in circumference 68 feet , and , when decaying , became hollow , forming a cavity capable of containing 20 men . An oak , felled at Withy Park ...
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... ground . † ' on . The greater part of these trees still support the bridge . - ED . A similar instance of parental affection occurred , a few years ago , in Richmond Park . Some tall spindly trees had to be taken down . A squirrel had ...
... ground . † ' on . The greater part of these trees still support the bridge . - ED . A similar instance of parental affection occurred , a few years ago , in Richmond Park . Some tall spindly trees had to be taken down . A squirrel had ...
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... ground abroad this fire - stone will not succeed for pavements , because , probably , some degree of saltness prevailing within it , the rain tears the slabs to pieces . Though this stone is too hard to be acted on by vinegar , yet both ...
... ground abroad this fire - stone will not succeed for pavements , because , probably , some degree of saltness prevailing within it , the rain tears the slabs to pieces . Though this stone is too hard to be acted on by vinegar , yet both ...
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... ground , has an influence in promoting a thaw , as well as the change of the weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest , from this observation , viz . , Nov. 29 , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was ...
... ground , has an influence in promoting a thaw , as well as the change of the weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest , from this observation , viz . , Nov. 29 , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was ...
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... ground ; so that for hundreds of acres nothing is to be seen but smother and desolation , the whole circuit round looking like the cinders of a volcano ; and , the soil being quite exhausted , no traces of vegetation are to be found for ...
... ground ; so that for hundreds of acres nothing is to be seen but smother and desolation , the whole circuit round looking like the cinders of a volcano ; and , the soil being quite exhausted , no traces of vegetation are to be found for ...
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