 which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself.'—White's Nat. Hint, of Selborne, Letter I. Malm, black, sb. a kind of soil. ' The gardens to the north-east and small enclosures behind, consist of a warm,...  A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases - Page 20by Barzillai Lowsley - 1888 - 199 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called a white malm, a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself, f Our wells, at an average, run to about sixty-three feet, and when sunk to that depth, seldom... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called a white malm, a sort of rotten, or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself*. Still on to the north-east, and a step lower, is a kind of white land, neither chalk nor clay,... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called white malm, a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself 5 . Still on to the north-east, and a step lower, is a kind of white land, neither chalk nor... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1862 - 456 pages
...range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called a white malm,* a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself. Still on to the north-east, and a step lower, is a kind of white land, neither chalk nor clay,... | |
 | William Topley, Henry William Bristow - Geology - 1875 - 540 pages
...charcoal growing just at hand. This white soil produces the brightest hops." rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up. to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself." " This soil produces good wheat and clover." The Rev. J. Wilkinson thus reports on the Wealden... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 400 pages
...range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called a white malm, a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself, f Our wells, at an average, run to about sixty-three feet, and when sunk to that depth, seldom... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 pages
...range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called a white malm, a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself.* Still on to the north-east, and a step lower, is a kind of white land, neither chalk nor clay,... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1880 - 554 pages
...range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called white malm, a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself.* Still on to the north-east, and a step lower, is a kind of white land, neither chalk nor clay,... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 320 pages
...range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called a white malm, a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure to itself. Gilbert White, Nat. Hist Selborue (ed. Bohn), p. 15. 2. [ca;>.] The name used in Germany, and... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 324 pages
...range of fair enclosures, consisting of what is called a white walw, a sort of rotten or rubble stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and becomes manure t« itself. Gilbert White. Nat. Hist, Selborne (ed. Bohn), p. 15. 2. [cnj).] The name used in Germany,... | |
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