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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Pump-Saint, five saints. Pwll, a pool, a ditch, a pit. Rhaiadr, a cataract. Rhiain, a maiden, a virgin. Rhiw, …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… very usual to whitewash the houses, from the abundance of chalk, of which here they have mountains. When Englishmen …
Survey of London
… of the foundations, which were of large squared blocks of chalk, with wide joints set in hard yellow mortar. Four feet … The walls were of rubble masonry, consisting of blocks of chalk and ragstone, bedded in hard yellow mortar. The … was completely excavated; the coffin was constructed of chalk slabs 4 inches thick and about 15 inches long, set …
Journal of the House of Lords
… House, and I was to pay for the Coals; there was a Coal Pit; it was not a mountainous Country, but a Country having …
Journal of the House of Lords
… pay that Sum out of his Pocket. Coals, leading from the Pit, 2£. 8 s.; that is done by Farmers; according to the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… When I distribute them, I pay a Guinea and a Half at the Pit for a Waggon Load, exclusive of the Carriage. What Sum …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Acres of Down, which consists of a very thin Soil on a Chalk Basis. The greater Part of that Down is occupied in the …