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... OCEAN , " & c . & c . WITH EIGHT ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL , AND TWENTY - SIX ON WOOD . SECOND EDITION . LONDON : JOHN HARRIS , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH - YARD . 1834 . NARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT ON EDWARD PERCIVAL XEXẾ MAY 21.
... OCEAN , " & c . & c . WITH EIGHT ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL , AND TWENTY - SIX ON WOOD . SECOND EDITION . LONDON : JOHN HARRIS , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH - YARD . 1834 . NARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT ON EDWARD PERCIVAL XEXẾ MAY 21.
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... wooden frames . The ivy on the further side has crept unmolested nearly to the garret windows ; and hangs nodding from the porch- roof in a very picturesque manner . Two enor- mous six - columned chimneys stand twenty - five feet higher ...
... wooden frames . The ivy on the further side has crept unmolested nearly to the garret windows ; and hangs nodding from the porch- roof in a very picturesque manner . Two enor- mous six - columned chimneys stand twenty - five feet higher ...
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... wood , made to receive the head of the cow , and detain it , lest the animal should turn and throw down the milk ... wooden frames , which Londoners might mistake for coops for young ostriches . They are cow - cribs , and contain winter ...
... wood , made to receive the head of the cow , and detain it , lest the animal should turn and throw down the milk ... wooden frames , which Londoners might mistake for coops for young ostriches . They are cow - cribs , and contain winter ...
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... wood- land parts , by ditches and hedge - rows , gar- nished with the varied forms of stately timber and leafy flowering shrubs . Of those inclosures twenty - one are arable , or plough - land , amount- ing to about three hundred acres ...
... wood- land parts , by ditches and hedge - rows , gar- nished with the varied forms of stately timber and leafy flowering shrubs . Of those inclosures twenty - one are arable , or plough - land , amount- ing to about three hundred acres ...
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... Wood Side ; Pa- rish Field ; Brook Field ; Topsey Wood ; Long Mead ; Shoulder - of - Mutton Field ; Great Hide ; Little Hide ; May Field ; Pig's - Mutton Field ; New Slip ; Pole - hurst Side ; Steeple Land ; Steward's Corner ; Eleigh ...
... Wood Side ; Pa- rish Field ; Brook Field ; Topsey Wood ; Long Mead ; Shoulder - of - Mutton Field ; Great Hide ; Little Hide ; May Field ; Pig's - Mutton Field ; New Slip ; Pole - hurst Side ; Steeple Land ; Steward's Corner ; Eleigh ...
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୪ ୪ ୪ Abbot's ancient animals Author balusters barley barn better Brook Field bundles called caraway cattle chiefly Children cloth clover coloured common COMMON WHEAT CORIANDER corn crop cultivated earth Edition employed England farm farmer feet Field FIORIN flax flowers fork Frontispiece Gablesides grain granary grass ground half-bound hand harvest hedge and ditch hemp hide HISTORY hops horses hundred acres Illustrations inclosures ISAAC TAYLOR John Harris kind labour land London machine machine presses manure ment milk mole-catcher morocco nature nearly oats pasture perennial plant performed persons Philip plant plough Price principal produce purpose quantity require roots scarcely season seed sheep shew shining season side soil sometimes sort sown stack stalks STORIES straw teasels things threshing tillage tion Upshire usually vegetable weather wheat whilst WHITE CLOVER winter wood yard young
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