| Henry Woodward - Electronic journals - 1866 - 652 pages
...mathematical one. connecting, say, two mere-stones, and yet a bank will soon have been formed along it. For each upper cultivator will naturally have taken care...strip to descend to fertilize his neighbour's below. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing the last ridge of soil up-hill,... | |
| Henry Woodward - Electronic journals - 1866 - 654 pages
...mathematical one, connecting, say, two mere-stones, and yet a bank will soon have been formed along it. For each upper cultivator will naturally have taken care...strip to descend to fertilize his neighbour's below. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing the last ridge of soil up-hill,... | |
| Cumbria (England) - 1867 - 332 pages
...mathematical one, connecting say, two mere-stones, and yet a bank will soon have been formed along it. For each upper cultivator will naturally have taken care...strip to descend to fertilize his neighbour's, below. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing the last ridge of the soil... | |
| Horace Bolingbroke Woodward - Coal - 1876 - 308 pages
...many instances due to landslips, and in others are due to an accumulation of rain-wash. Mr. SCROPR has pointed out that such ridges would be rapidly...would pave the way for a bank of earth which in the progress of years increases into a linchet several feet in height. § " Between Yarlington and Godshill... | |
| Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, Edwin Tulley Newton - Geology - 1887 - 704 pages
...part of the open field, the strips were almost always made to run more or less horizontally along it. Each upper cultivator will naturally have taken care...years increases into a linchet several feet in height. In some cases on the steep Chalk downs, terraces for ploughing appear to have been artificially cut.*... | |
| George Laurence Gomme - Village communities - 1890 - 350 pages
...and yet a bank would soon have been formed along it, for each upper cultivator will naturally take care not to allow the soil of his strip to descend to fertilize that of his neighbour. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing the... | |
| Edward Hungerford Goddard - Natural history - 1869 - 842 pages
...mere-stones, and yet a bank will soon have been formed along it, for each upper cultivator will naturally take care not to allow the soil of his strip to descend to fertilize that of his neighbour below. He would draw the lower limit of his strip by a reversed furrow, throwing... | |
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