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... , birch , and Huntingdon willow , to it . What are more graceful than the pendulous branches of the beech , covered with hoar frost in wirter -ED . manner , two very incongruous soils . To the south 14 VILLAGE OF SELBORNE.
... , birch , and Huntingdon willow , to it . What are more graceful than the pendulous branches of the beech , covered with hoar frost in wirter -ED . manner , two very incongruous soils . To the south 14 VILLAGE OF SELBORNE.
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... frost and rain , moulders to pieces , and becomes manure to itself.t Still on to the north - east , and a step lower , is a kind of * This spring produced , September 14 , 1781 , after a severe hot summer , and a preceding dry spring ...
... frost and rain , moulders to pieces , and becomes manure to itself.t Still on to the north - east , and a step lower , is a kind of * This spring produced , September 14 , 1781 , after a severe hot summer , and a preceding dry spring ...
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... frost , they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were a very recent production . In the chalk - pit , at the north - west end of the Hanger , large nautili are some times observed . In the very thickest strata of our freestone ...
... frost , they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were a very recent production . In the chalk - pit , at the north - west end of the Hanger , large nautili are some times observed . In the very thickest strata of our freestone ...
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... frost , and are excellent for pitching of stables , paths , and courts , and for building of dry walls against banks , a valuable species of fencing , much in use in this village ; and for mending of roads . This rug is ragged and ...
... frost , and are excellent for pitching of stables , paths , and courts , and for building of dry walls against banks , a valuable species of fencing , much in use in this village ; and for mending of roads . This rug is ragged and ...
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... frost - work . These rugged gloomy scenes affright the ladies when they peep down into them , from the paths above , and make timid horsemen shudder while they ride along them ; but delight the naturalist with their various botany , and ...
... frost - work . These rugged gloomy scenes affright the ladies when they peep down into them , from the paths above , and make timid horsemen shudder while they ride along them ; but delight the naturalist with their various botany , and ...
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