 | John Ray, William Derham - Biologists - 1760 - 364 pages
...decorticated Barley. The ordinary Country Houfes are pitiful Cots, built of Stone, and covered with Turves, having in them but one Room, many of them no Chimneys, the Windows very fmall Holes, and not glazed » In the moft ftately and famionable Houfes, in great Towns, inftead of... | |
 | Alexander Taylor (of Muthill.) - 1827 - 336 pages
...bread, cheese, nor drink. The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built with stones, and covered with turfs, having in them but one room; many of them...small holes, and not glazed. The ground in the valleys ana plains bears very good oats and barley, but rarely wheat and rye." Yet in the seventeenth century... | |
 | George Johnston - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1829 - 636 pages
...decorticated barley. The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built of stone and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes, and not glazed. In the most stately and fashionable houses in great towns, instead of ceiling they cover the chambers... | |
 | John M'Ure - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1830 - 412 pages
...decorticated barley. The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes, and not glazed. In the most stately and fashionable houses, in great towns, instead of cieling, they cover the chambers... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...decorticated barley. The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes, and not glazed. In the most stately and fashionable houses, in great towns, instead of cieling, they cover the chambers... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Natural history - 1834 - 408 pages
...decorticated barley. The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes, and not glazed. In the most stately and fashionable houses, in great towns, instead of cieling, they cover the chambers... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...decorticated barley. The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes, and not glazed. In the most stately and fashionable houses, in great towns, instead of cieling, they cover the chambers... | |
 | William Jardine - Entomology - 1835 - 412 pages
...decorticated barley. The ordinary country-houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes, and not glazed. In the most stately and fashionable houses in great towns, instead of cieling, they cover the chambers... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...will they learn. The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built of stone and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes, and not glazed. In the- most stately and fashionable houses in great towns, instead of ceiling, they cover the chambers... | |
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The ordinary country houses are pitiful cots, built of stone, and covered with turves, having in them but one room, many of them no chimneys, the windows very small holes and not glazed. 
