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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… and curious buildings in that country) and also to the British Museum. While there I looked into the new reading … in fact as charming weather as can be imagined. The British Bank swindle having been fully exposed and great … 2 hours rowing and returned through Ham Common. Very fine. British Bank Humphrey Brown is captured, hurrah!! Also …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Went on with McConnell's locomotive, cut up wood etc. The British Institution exhibition is just opened. It is said to … drew Optics 4 diagrams, etc. Very cold and snowing. The British Bank Directors trial is at last concluded, and they … bill, making conspiracy to commit murder outside British jurisdiction a felony instead of a misdemeanour (see …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… History of the Virgin from the original block book at the British Museum, traced a cut, went to S.P.C.K., mended a … 3. Made lists of birds, cut up wood, went to Wolf's and British Museum, corrected engraving blocks, began Wolf fish … 26. Touched up a drawing of Skelton's, went to Walbrook (British Orphan Asylum) etc. 75 There will, I think, be no war …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… with St Roch, translated French, in afternoon went to Mr Leyland's reformatory at Wandsworth. No news. A rumour of a …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… No news. Fine day. 5. Finished map. Fine day. The Royal British Bank has just stopped payment, after sustaining a run …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… in the House in the course of a debate on voting money to British Museum, Lord J. Russell casually mentioned something … is manufactured and coiled in the holds of the Agamemnon (British 91) and the America (U.S.S. frigate) and is quite … gone to Limpsfield, Surrey. My mother went in afternoon to Leyland's at Wandsworth. An exceedingly fine day. 17. Cut up …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… various errands, cut up wood, on with Kilsby Tunnel, to British Museum library, Windsor's and Newton's etc. Very … Finished Clay Cross village, cut up wood, went to Mudie's, British Museum to compare corals etc with the originals, … Cathedral, drew a Windmill etc. In afternoon went to British Museum, Mudie's etc. Fine. 10. Sunday. Went to Maze …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Puckle-Church. Here is a camp, supposed to be of British origin; and Roman coins, urns, and bricks, have been …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and in 1810 a harbour was consequently constructed by the British Fishery Society, at a cost of 14,000, towards which … who fitted out two sloops for the purpose. In 1808, the British Fishery Society granted lots of land in perpetual … Assembly. At Pulteney-Town is a school supported by the British Fishery Society; there are numerous Sabbath schools …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1911, was still flourishing in the 1990s, 97 but a British Legion branch of 1921 expired in 1984 for lack of …