 | John Murray (Firm) - Belgium - 1838 - 612 pages
...Zweibriicken, or Deux Ponts. The dukes resided in the Palace, now converted into a Catholic church. The name of this place is supposed to be derived from the two bridges leading across the river Erbach to the palace. The principality once belonged to the crown... | |
 | Europe - 1838 - 582 pages
...Zweibrücken, or Deux Ponts. The dukes resided in the Palace, now converted into a Catholic church. The name of this place is supposed to be derived from the two bridges leading across the river Erbach to the palace. The principality once belonged to the crown... | |
 | John Murray - Belgium - 1852 - 326 pages
...resided in the Palace, partly destroyed by the French, and the remains now converted into a Catholic ch. The name of this place is supposed to be derived from the two bridges leading aeross the river Erbach to the palace. The Principality once belonged to the erown... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 678 pages
...moves the engine by which the late Mr. How made those knife-blades now so famous throughout England." The name of this place is supposed to be derived from the Saxon leswe, a. meadow, and ham, a dwelling. Lewisham. ] THE POET DERMODY. 245 Lying along the valley... | |
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... Deptford into the Thames. With regard to this stream, the " Kentish Traveller's Companion" (1789) says: "The river Ravensbourne directs its course through this parish ; at the hamlet of Southend it moves the engine by which the late Mr. How made those... 