An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive View of the County of Northumberland: And of Those Parts of the County of Durham Situated North of the River Tyne, with Berwick Upon Tweed, and Brief Notices of Celebrated Places on the Scottish Border, Tom 1Mackenzie and Dent, 1825 |
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... late experience , here wet weather is not so sensible and searching , as it is in Middlesex . ' Tis possible the warm breaths that continually come out of its numberless colepits helps , with the vapours of the sea , to take off the ...
... late experience , here wet weather is not so sensible and searching , as it is in Middlesex . ' Tis possible the warm breaths that continually come out of its numberless colepits helps , with the vapours of the sea , to take off the ...
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... late Dr. Cay , of New- castle , had one or two varieties of the small striated nautalitæ , a native of the Indian ... late years , been more seduously and successfully cultivated . To forward the purposes of science , Messrs Winch and ...
... late Dr. Cay , of New- castle , had one or two varieties of the small striated nautalitæ , a native of the Indian ... late years , been more seduously and successfully cultivated . To forward the purposes of science , Messrs Winch and ...
Strona 109
... late they have been much used in light carts , by gardeners , & c . and are found extremely useful . Should the legislature refrain for some time longer from taxing these animals , and proper attention be paid to the improvement of the ...
... late they have been much used in light carts , by gardeners , & c . and are found extremely useful . Should the legislature refrain for some time longer from taxing these animals , and proper attention be paid to the improvement of the ...
Strona 110
... late Mr. Bailey has given the following curious and picturesque description of this singular race of animals : " Their colour is invariably white , muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear , and about one - third of the outside ...
... late Mr. Bailey has given the following curious and picturesque description of this singular race of animals : " Their colour is invariably white , muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear , and about one - third of the outside ...
Strona 111
... late years , the park- keeper alone generally shooting them with a rifled gun , at one shot . " When the cows calve , they hide their calves for a week or ten days , in some sequestered situation , and go and suckle them two or three ...
... late years , the park- keeper alone generally shooting them with a rifled gun , at one shot . " When the cows calve , they hide their calves for a week or ten days , in some sequestered situation , and go and suckle them two or three ...
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