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Near er , as I should conceive , with fresh Chester , the River Dee Company have
tenacious earth : lastly , every foreign also gained foine thousands of acres article
fufceptible of changé , conie- from the fea , which are now divided quently ...
Near er , as I should conceive , with fresh Chester , the River Dee Company have
tenacious earth : lastly , every foreign also gained foine thousands of acres article
fufceptible of changé , conie- from the fea , which are now divided quently ...
Page 257
P. 243 . these were frequented with vaft flocks of small birds , particularly with the
loxia orix , called by English ornitholoTHE SEA - COW RIVER - MYRIADS OF
gifts the granadier , and by the French LOCUSTS . the cardinal of the Cape of
Good ...
P. 243 . these were frequented with vaft flocks of small birds , particularly with the
loxia orix , called by English ornitholoTHE SEA - COW RIVER - MYRIADS OF
gifts the granadier , and by the French LOCUSTS . the cardinal of the Cape of
Good ...
Page 258
Thefe appeared on the opposite bank of the birds had here taken up a temporary
river . This was a clump of about half abode in a place where they were not a
dozen large bushes , the first that had likely , in a short space of time , to be ...
Thefe appeared on the opposite bank of the birds had here taken up a temporary
river . This was a clump of about half abode in a place where they were not a
dozen large bushes , the first that had likely , in a short space of time , to be ...
Page 365
The river being made navi . man and Rees , Westley , London . gable , large
quantities of timber , meal , malt , lime , & c . are conveyed to London by barges of
upwards of forty tops Plate of Tradesmen's Tokens . burden , which on their return
...
The river being made navi . man and Rees , Westley , London . gable , large
quantities of timber , meal , malt , lime , & c . are conveyed to London by barges of
upwards of forty tops Plate of Tradesmen's Tokens . burden , which on their return
...
Page 391
94 . the river Ness , from an eminence , on which once stood the Castle . ... of
those wild but confined scenes , were removed , for the sake of the stone , which
the hollows of a river or streamby some person who probably cared let often
afford .
94 . the river Ness , from an eminence , on which once stood the Castle . ... of
those wild but confined scenes , were removed , for the sake of the stone , which
the hollows of a river or streamby some person who probably cared let often
afford .
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