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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the transparent waters of the river, and offering a barrier to navigation. The next operation was, to uplift the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… fen in 1637. 76 The main work completed there was the barrier bank all along the south side of the Ouse. An area of … 1663, and was afterwards known as the Undertakers. 77 The barrier bank did not always keep out floods. About 1737 the …
Survey of London
… seven rows of seats (Plate 66b), separated by a raised barrier from a gallery with nine rows of benches. Both parts …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… zeal built a castle which was inaccessible because of the barrier of water and marsh on every side'. 21 Some ambiguity …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Solway Firth. Of the stations along the line of this barrier, the first that occurs in following its course …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… vain that the States have taken so much pains about their Barrier; for they will have none, when all is done. And the …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… and nothing else, will make them think us in earnest. If a Barrier be left for Holland, &c. why do not the French take … forward as they for Peace, and if the French take in that Barrier betwixt Flanders and Holland, possibly they will be …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… had 90,000 men in the field, and could not save Namur, the Barrier for Holland; and in the mean time we ruin England. …