 There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running streams, and also many islands, and reeds, and hillocks, and thickets, and with manifold windings wide and long it continues up to the north sea.  The Geology of the Fenland - Page 16by Sydney B. J. Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly - 1877 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Guthlac (st.), Felix (monk of Crowland.) - 1848 - 154 pages
...immense size, which begins from the river Granta not far from the city, which is named Grantchester. There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running streams, and also many islands, and reeds, and hillocks, and thickets, and with manifold windings wide... | |
 | Felix - English language - 1848 - 156 pages
...immense size, which begins from the river Granta not far from the city, •which is named Grantchester. There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running streams, and also many islands, and reeds, and hillocks, and thickets, and with manifold windings wide... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...old historian says, " The fen begins from the river Granta, not far from the town of Grantchester. There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running streams, and also many islands, and reeds, and hillocks, and thickets ; and with manifold windings,... | |
 | Pishey Thompson - Boston (England). - 1856 - 865 pages
...Henry III. (1230). 3 The author of the " Life of St. Guthlac," speaking of the great level, says,-— " There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running streamer, and also many islands, and reeds and hillocks, and with manifold windings wide and long,... | |
 | Pishey Thompson - Boston (England) - 1856 - 886 pages
...of these waters." The author of the " Life of St Guthlac," speaking of the great level, says, — " There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running strcames, and also many islands, and reeds and hillocks, and with manifold windings wide and long,... | |
 | Walter (of Aquitaine, Waldere.) - 1860 - 144 pages
...immense size, which begins from the river Granta not far from the city, which is named Grantchester. There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running streams, and also many islands, and reeds, and hillocks, and thickets, and with manifold windings wide... | |
 | Sabine Baring Gould - 1873 - 404 pages
...which b gins from the river Grant (the Cam), not far from the city named GranKhester (near Cambridge). There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running channels, and also many islands, and reeds, and hillocks, and thickets, and with manifold windings... | |
 | Sydney B. J. Skertchly, Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly - Cambridgeshire (England) - 1877 - 408 pages
...neighbourhood : — " There is a prodigious fen beginning from the " banks of the Roman Gronta (R. Cam), extending a great way, " intersected sometimes by...far as the sea." Felix also remarks that, " there arc immense marshes, now a " black pool of water, ПОЛУ foul running streames, and also many '•'... | |
 | Frederick Metcalfe - Comparative literature - 1880 - 570 pages
...immense size, which begins from the river Granta, .not far from the city which is named Grantchester. There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running streams, and also many islands, and reeds, and hillocks, 1 A»er, 474, 480. 1 St. Ncot's Life. and... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Christian saints - 1880 - 408 pages
...which begins from the river Grant (the Cam), not far from the city named Grantchester (near Cambridge). There are immense marshes, now a black pool of water, now foul running channels, and also many islands, and reeds, and hillocks, and thickets, and with manifold windings... | |
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