| Edward Parsons - Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) - 1834 - 528 pages
...unfavourable situation of Halifax may serve to prove how completely the wealth and industry of man ean trample over the most stubborn indispositions of nature. In a farming district the whole township must have lain waste for ever. A basis of quartz not half covered by a few stunted bushe* of ling.... | |
| John Crabtree - Halifax (England) - 1836 - 604 pages
...of toil and labour, but to prove as Dr. WHITAKEB has well observed " how completely the wealth and industry of man can triumph over the most stubborn indispositions of nature ;" instead of the place "situate at the foot of a mighty and almost inaccessible rock, all overgrown... | |
| England - 1848 - 670 pages
...township, more perhaps than any other in the country, serves to prove how completely the wealth and industry of man can triumph over the most stubborn indispositions of nature." — Baines. The parish ч 17 miles in length, and averages 11 in breadth. Acres 75,740. Houses 2,115.... | |
| Great Britain - 1851 - 658 pages
...township, more perhaps than any other in the country, serves to prove how completely the wealth and industry of man can triumph over the most stubborn indispositions of nature." — liaines. The parish is 17 miles in length, and averages 11 in breadtiu Acres 75,740. Houses 2,115.... | |
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