Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe, Volume 5A. Finley, 1832 |
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Page 19 - ... of its value before the wort was extracted from it. By the process on this estate, nine bushels of Potatoes are mixed with one of Malt, to draw the wort, which is afterwards distilled, so as to produce a spirit containing 80 per cent. of Alcohol, in which state it pays a duty (much complained of) of sixpence per gallon. It is reduced, before it is sold, till it retains 50 per cent. of Alcohol; and the price charged to the retailers is about fourteen-pence per gallon. Another person, of the same...
Page 14 - ... pasture between the crops. These peasants were sold with the land, or descended to the heir, and were bound to perform certain labour or services for the lord. They could not, on the other hand, be dismissed from their holdings, nor had their superior any power over the property they might happen to be able to accumulate. The conditions upon which the peasants held their portions of land, were very various, some having a greater, and others a less share of the use of them; some doing greater,...
Page 20 - Jacob in his Reports, potatoes- are applied to many useful purposes. They are cultivated to a great extent, and by converting them into starch and treacle that land is made to yield a profit which might otherwise have produced a loss. Sugar did not answer so well; "but the treacle,
Page 350 - ... has been scathed by the lightnings of heaven, but it has itself remained unchanged. But a word of description : " The Rock of Gibraltar is fourteen hundred and seventy feet high, and is composed of grey limestone, divided by perpendicular fissures, filled with calcareous concretions, containing an immense quantity of bones and shells. Many of the former belong to different sorts of deer, none of which are at present found in Europe. The town of Gibraltar lies near the northern extremity of the...
Page 19 - ... Through the five winter months, the sheep are fed with Corn, chiefly Rye, at the rate of one pound per day, which is estimated to be equal to three pounds of hay. The proprietor calculated, that sheep thus kept yielded nearly as much more wool as, added to the benefit which the manure of the animals received from that kind of food, was equal to the price he should have received for the Corn, if he had sold it ; and that the profit on this system Was the value of the whole of the hay, which would...
Page 14 - The land was worked by a class of persons, in some respects slaves ; and in most respects but little removed from that condition. In many cases they had an hereditary kind of right to some use of the land, such as to grow one crop of corn according to a prescribed course, whilst the lord had the right of pasture between the crops. These peasants were sold with the land, or descended to the heir, and were bound to perform certain labour or services for the lord. They could not, on the other hand,...
Page 18 - ... deficient stock of the animals, from which manure is derived, it will naturally be inferred, that the increase of Grain must be very small. I was satisfied, from my own observations, and it was confirmed by the opinion of intelligent natives, that much of the land in cultivation could not yield on the average more than three times as much Corn as the seed that had been sown. . The calculations made by the most intelligent statistical inquirers, and the most observing cultivators, have not estimated...
Page 15 - ... severely cold, no agricultural work can be performed. The flax and the wool spun in their cottages must supply the clothing of the family ; and the fat of the animals they kill must be converted into soap and candles. Meat of any kind can be rarely afforded to be eaten by such families ; and only the few who are more prosperous than their neighbours can keep a cow to supply them with milk. They consume nearly all they produce, and are considered happy if they have a sufficient surplus for sale...
Page 262 - As to when, and by whom the mischief was done, a woman who had lived next door for the last seventeen years, told me, that she had heard of soldiers firing at the picture before her time ; that a soldier of the sixth regiment of French hussars had told her, that he himself with others had done so, not knowing what it was, when guarding prisoners confined in the hall ; and that these prisoners, men of all nations, threw stones and brickbats against it by way of amusement. "When...
Page 293 - ... only extend to three of the principal of these, — the Lupercalia, the Bacchanalia, and the Saturnalia. The Lupercalia was a festival appointed to the honour of the Lycian Pan, and was celebrated in Rome on the fifteenth day of February. It was one of the most ancient Roman feasts, and was celebrated on the spot where Romulus and Remus were supposed to have been suckled by the she- wolf ; and where a temple was erected, and a grove planted, in honour of this deity. The entire proceedings of...