The natural history and antiquities of Selborne. With The naturalist's calendar and miscellaneous observationsChiswick Press, 1837 - 640 pages |
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... person has measured it for a very long period . I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years , from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon was 16 inches for the year ; if from 1740 to 1750 ...
... person has measured it for a very long period . I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years , from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon was 16 inches for the year ; if from 1740 to 1750 ...
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... person assures me , that his father has often told him that Queen Anne , as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road , did not think the forest of Wolmer beneath her royal regard . For she came out of the great road at Lippock , which ...
... person assures me , that his father has often told him that Queen Anne , as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road , did not think the forest of Wolmer beneath her royal regard . For she came out of the great road at Lippock , which ...
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... person was allowed to be pos- sessed of manhood or gallantry . The Waltham blacks at length committed such enormities , that government was forced to interfere with that severe and sanguinary act called the black act ' , which now ...
... person was allowed to be pos- sessed of manhood or gallantry . The Waltham blacks at length committed such enormities , that government was forced to interfere with that severe and sanguinary act called the black act ' , which now ...
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... persons sent down by government . [ According to the Report of the Commissioners here referred to , the forests contain about fifteen thousand four hundred and ninety - three acres , statute measure : but of that quantity about six ...
... persons sent down by government . [ According to the Report of the Commissioners here referred to , the forests contain about fifteen thousand four hundred and ninety - three acres , statute measure : but of that quantity about six ...
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... person has informed me that , while he was a schoolboy at Brighthelmstone , in Sus- sex , a great fragment of the chalk - cliff fell down one stormy winter on the beach ; and that many people found swallows among the rubbish : but , on ...
... person has informed me that , while he was a schoolboy at Brighthelmstone , in Sus- sex , a great fragment of the chalk - cliff fell down one stormy winter on the beach ; and that many people found swallows among the rubbish : but , on ...
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