| Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...dangers of this route, had said not a word about the beauties, the matchless beau ties, of the scenery. These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep...hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some sort, to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers. From the summit of... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...dangers of this route, had said not a word about the beauties, the matchless beauties, of the scenery. These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep...hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some sort, to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers. From the summit of... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - Hampshire (England) - 1858 - 360 pages
...dangers of this route had said not a word about the beauties, the matchless beauties of the scenery. These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep...hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some sort, to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers." (It is rather perhaps... | |
| England, South East - 1861 - 336 pages
...looking from the top of a castle down into the sea, except that the valley was land and not water. . . . These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep...hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some sort, to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers. From the summit of... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - Hampshire (England) - 1876 - 568 pages
...dangers of this route had said not a word about the beauties, the matchless beauties of the scenery. These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep...hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some sort, to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers." (It ig rather perhaps... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - Hampshire (England) - 1876 - 566 pages
...dangers of this route had said not a word about the beauties, the matchless beauties of the scenery. These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep...hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some sort, to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers." (It is rather perhaps... | |
| Thomas Hervey - Colemore (Hampshire) - 1880 - 320 pages
...dangers of this route had said not a word about the beauties,, the' matchless beauties of the scenery. These hangers are woods. on the sides of very steep...hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some sort, to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers. From the summit of... | |
| Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1880 - 338 pages
...old master of descriptive and abusive English, thus accounts for the name in his ' Rural Rides': ' These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep hills. The trees and underwood hang in some sort to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers.' The word often occurs... | |
| Mortimer Collins - Gardening in literature - 1880 - 342 pages
...old master of descriptive and abusive English, thus accounts for the name in his ' Rural Rides ': ' These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep hills. The trees and underwood hang in some sort to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called hangers.' The word often occurs... | |
| William Cobbett - Country life - 1885 - 628 pages
...and dangers of this route, had said not a word about beauties, the matchless beauties of the scenery. These hangers are woods on the sides of very steep...hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some sort, to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called Hangers. PVom the summit of... | |
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