The Natural History of Northamptonshire, ... by John Morton (naturalist, Rector of Oxendon)1712 |
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... fame Sort of Ground . If to thefe Observations I add one or two more of not unlike kind , I hope the Reader will pardon it . The strongest and hardyest Hares , in the County , perhaps in England , as by the best Judges I have been ...
... fame Sort of Ground . If to thefe Observations I add one or two more of not unlike kind , I hope the Reader will pardon it . The strongest and hardyest Hares , in the County , perhaps in England , as by the best Judges I have been ...
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... Fame for its Antiquity , and has not much else that is worthy taking Notice of . It owes its Im- provements to a well frequented Market , and to the Great Weft- Chester Road upon which it stands . One of its Inns has the Beft Che Custom ...
... Fame for its Antiquity , and has not much else that is worthy taking Notice of . It owes its Im- provements to a well frequented Market , and to the Great Weft- Chester Road upon which it stands . One of its Inns has the Beft Che Custom ...
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... fame Size , and Form exactly as are those that conftitute the Freestone of Welden , and fome other of our Quarries ; whereof hereafter in Ch . 2. p . 1. There were many of these . The bigger Pieces of Stone , that lay scatter'd about in ...
... fame Size , and Form exactly as are those that conftitute the Freestone of Welden , and fome other of our Quarries ; whereof hereafter in Ch . 2. p . 1. There were many of these . The bigger Pieces of Stone , that lay scatter'd about in ...
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... fame Shells that original- ly gave Form to them . I could produce , if there was Occafion , a great many Inftances out of every Hundred , or District : as many in the Upland Parts of the County , those remotest from the Sea , as in ...
... fame Shells that original- ly gave Form to them . I could produce , if there was Occafion , a great many Inftances out of every Hundred , or District : as many in the Upland Parts of the County , those remotest from the Sea , as in ...
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... fame , or very near the fame , with that of Rye , viz . as about 1 to 1. This is the speci fick Gravity of decorticated Barley ; that of Barley in the Husk is less . The Barley I weighed was fo far cleared of the Husk or Rind , that it ...
... fame , or very near the fame , with that of Rye , viz . as about 1 to 1. This is the speci fick Gravity of decorticated Barley ; that of Barley in the Husk is less . The Barley I weighed was fo far cleared of the Husk or Rind , that it ...
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